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HISTORY 


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114TH FIELD 
ARTILLERY 


BY REESE AMIS 
Captain, Battery C 
114th FIELD ARTILLERY 


An Appreciation 


It is fitting that the history of the 114th Field Artillery be put in permanent form and in 
~ such shape as to be in the hands of each man who made the regiment and its glorious record, 
It will be possessed with satisfaction and handed down to future generations with pride. 

I am not going into the history of the regiment, for that will be handled by others with 
much more accuracy that I am capable of without the records. 

May I not recount instead a few personal impressions? My first impression of the regiment 
very nearly proved fatal. Long before any member of it arrived | was informed that it was 
coming to Camp Sevier commanded by a former United States Senator! I was immediately 
assailed with visions of an elderly and corpulent gentleman, much better fitted for a swivel chair 
than a saddle, and by previous training more accustomed to giving orders than to receiving and 
carrying them out. I saw my troubles coming and spent many a mauvais quart d’heure until 
the arrival of the regiment. 

How that preconceived notion was changed you all know full well. The regiment owed much 
to the magnificent leadership, energy, industry, versatility—in a word—ability of Colonel Lea. 
He set an example that was worth all the precept in the world. He immediately excelled in all 
the tasks that were set for the training of the regiment and saw that all hands buckled down 
to work as hard as he did. He at once absorbed the two cardinal points of an artilleryman’s 
religion—"“Get there” and “There is no such word as ‘Can't.’” He never had to “drive” the 
regiment. Its personnel from top to bottom was of magnificent material—men who had volunteered 
for duty’s sake and who were in the war heart and soul to give their country the best there was in 
them. They did not have to be driven. They drove themselves. It made no difference whether 
the work was parting picket lines, uprooting trees, or service practice on the target range—the 
same spirit of loyal, whole-souled service prevailed. That was the reason for the rapid develop- 
ment and subsequent success of the regiment. The development was rapid beyond all precon- 
ceived ideas of training new field artillery troops, and in spite of pitiful lack of equipment and 
shortage of instructors, the regiment was soon putting in excellent target practice in the actual 
service of the guns. This was possible only through the superior quality of the personnel and 
the conscientious manner in which they applied themselves to their duty. When the regiment 
left the United States in May, 1918, it was as good artillery as any that went overseas. This 
is not my opinion alone, as | was informed that the Fifty-fifth Brigade, during the final period 
of training, made the best record that was made at Camp Coetquidan. 

At this point I was sent to another command and have no personal knowledge of the subse- 
quent record and experience of the regiment. Of course, we all know what that glorious record 
was and those who do not can readily find it in this book. However excellent that record was, 
I believe the greatest triumph attained by the regiment was over themselves in suddenly changing 
their whole mode of life and thought, jumping overnight from office, school, shop and farm into 
ranks and making of themselves, in record time, one of our best artillery regiments out of an 
organization, just one man of which (Sergeant Newman) had ever served a field gun. 

May our country never lack the same spirit and the same kind of material in future time of 
need. In my opinion, it will not as long as the Old Volunteer State exists. 


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Introduction 


=TIHERE is a comradeship, born of arms and cemented by the hardships of 
| battle and of field service, that is rarely found in civil life. It is founded, 
not upon selfish grounds, but upon the deeper, closer relationship begot by 
Bx) «the trials and tribulations, the joys and victories of war. It is a friendship 
that is formed with no ulterior motive, with no personal, partisan reason. It grows and 
strengthens upon the daily round of camp life, is nurtured to maturity through long, 
tedious, heartbreaking marches by day and night in the open, and is welded to an ever- 
lasting temper in the fiery furnace of war. You may know a man better from one night 
with him under a blanket in a trench than from many years of casual acquaintance in 
civil life. It is easy for those who saw long service in the World War to understand 
why the veterans of the Civil War, though it is almost threescore years past, cling to 
each other and exert every ounce of their failing strength and are willing to spend every 
cent of their means to attend their annual reunions. 


The 114th Field Artillery was no ordinary organization. Its men and officers were 
bound by no ordinary ties. Coming from the best blood in Tennessee, they gladly laid 
aside their duties at home and answered the call for volunteers when the clarion of war 
was sounded. ‘They forgot or sunk their past relationships and stations in life and sub- 
mitted themselves to rank and discipline without a murmur. They realized their ignorance 
of the art of war and gladly sat at the feet of those who could teach them. They 
willingly left behind the comforts of home and the ties of family to cross the sea and 
fight the most brutal, arrogant foe of history. 


When there was no one else to fight, they fought among themselves. There was the 
keenest rivalry among the eight organizations for the title of being the best in the regiment, 
but when the contest was with another regiment or against the enemy, they fought as 
one and with the power of a machine. They often grumbled and complained of their 
hardships, but in the face of danger and under the stress of battle their faces were 
wreathed with smiles and they reveled in the joy of pumping lead into the Huns. Those 
who made the supreme sacrifice did so with sublime courage and with unflinching 
bravery. 

The men who joined the regiment after its organization were of the same splendid 
type as those who volunteered with the outbreak of war and served all the way through. 
They accepted their share of the burdens and hardships with as willing hands, and 
became infused with the same morale and esprit de corps. It was their regiment the 
same as if they had enlisted under its banner from the beginning. 

It has been my purpose to record the principal events of the regiment’s career with 
an unbiased mind and with justice to each organization. If some salient fact or matter 


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has been omitted, or some error has been made, it was unintentional. The full records 
were tumed back to the War Department when the regiment was mustered out of service, 
and this story was written without access to them. It would have been impossible without 
much statistical data compiled by my late brother, Lewis F. Amis, sergeant-major 
throughout the period of the regiment’s greatest activity, and to whom, along with those 
who lost their lives while in its service, I deem it a privilege to dedicate this small volume. 

The names of Corporal Thomas W.. Moreland and Private William O. White, of 
Battery B, are not included in the list of the regiment’s dead. ‘The reason is that it has 
never been definitely established that they were killed, although they have not returned 
to their homes, and the members of their organization are convinced that they are no 
longer living. The former was reported missing after the Argonne battle, while the 
latter, who was gassed in the Woevre sector, was never heard from after he was sent 
to the hospital. 

Thanks are due to John H. Parmelee, sergeant-major of the First Battalion, for 
permission to use the eight pages of cartoons drawn by him of the regiment’s travels and 
experiences. Lieut. Clyde Hunter and others loaned kodak pictures for illustrations, 
while the battery and company commanders compiled the rosters of their organizations. 


REEsE AmIs. 
Nashville, Tenn., February 14, 1920. 


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COLONEL LUKE LEA 


Fresh from six years in the United States Senate, Colonel Lea threw his full vigor and strength into the 
organization of the First Tennessee Field Artillery, which became the 114th Field Artillery upon 
muster into federal service. He commanded it with both distinction and ability throughout its career 
and led it personally in its three offensive and two defensive campaigns. The regiment's reputation and 
success were largely due to his virile leadership. 


COLONEL JAMES A. GLEASON 


After more than twenty years in the State National Guard, Colonel Gleason volunteered again when the 
United States entered the World War and became lieutenant colonel of the Second Tennessee Infantry. 
When it was dismembered at Camp Sevier, he was transferred to the 114th Field Artillery, serving with it 
in all of its battles as second in command. After the armistice he served for a time in command of the 
115th Field Artillery. At Le Mans he received a deserved promotion to full colonel when a vacancy 
occurred in the brigade. He returned home, attached to the regiment, on this account. 


BRIGADIER GENERAL GEO. G. GATLEY 


General Gatley was our first brigade commander. 
He served as commanding general of the Fifty-Fifth 
F. A. Brigade from its organization in September, 
1917, until he was transferred to the artillery of the 
Forty-Second Division on July 6, 1918. He is a 
graduate of West Point and, previous to the World 
War, he saw service in the United States, Cuba and 
the Philippines. He has no superior as a com- 
mander of men. 


Bric. GEN. JOHN W. KILBRETH, JR. 


General Kilbreth came to the brigade early in 
October, 1918, just as ii was moving into the Woevre 
sector. He commanded it with great skill during the 
month of operations there. Shortly after the armis- 
tice he was ordered on special duty and did not re- 
turn to the brigade until a short time before it left 
Le Mans. He returned on the “Finland” with our 
regiment, but was detached after reaching Newport 
News. He had no peer as an artilleryman in the 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Organization 


Organization 


{SSSNIARLY in 1917, on the occasion of a visit to Nashville in connection with 
N ee legislative matters, Senator Luke Lea told several friends that, in case the 
Sd | UBZRe) United States declared war on Germany, as it seemed very probable at 
the time, he intended to raise a volunteer regiment for active service and 
tender it to the federal government for duty in France. He had received assurances, he 
said, from various high officials of the War Department, with whom he had been thrown 
in close contact as a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, that the regi- 
ment would be accepted and fully equipped in whatever arm of the service it was enlisted 
during the emergency. 

Before the expiration of the state legislature, he had a conference with Senator 
Graham with reference to obtaining Captain Foster Graham, his brother, a graduate of 
West Point, and one of the best known officers in the cavalry service of the regular army, 
as colonel of the proposed regiment. Senator Lea was a lover of good horses and a 
mounted regiment appealed to him greatly. However, the idea of a cavalry organization 
was soon abandoned when it was found impossible to obtain Captain Graham’s release 
from the regular army for service in the national guard, and when the policy of the War 
Department in increasing largely the artillery, at the same time virtually eliminating the 
cavalry from active service abroad, became apparent. 

Senator Lea then directed his efforts toward the formation of the regiment as a light 
artillery organization, for which provision had been made in the increased quota of 
Tennessee’s national guard. Though there had been two infantry regiments and a 
squadron of cavalry in the state militia for many years, the artillery was a completely 
new arm for it. In the regular army also it was numerically very small before the World 
War, there being only six regiments up to June, 1916. It was regarded as an abstruse, 
technical arm of the service, for which the infantry and cavalry of the line had little use. 
However, its very effective and necessary use by all the combatants in the war, especially 
by the French, caused the great expansion and enlargement of this branch in the reorgani- 
zation of our army. It grew from 8,661 officers and men, when the war began, to 
462,153 officers and men at its close. 

Feeling his own lack of knowledge in military affairs, and knowing that the regiment 
would be made up of both officers and men who were likewise without experience, Senator 
Lea again made an attempt to obtain an experienced, high-class regular army officer as 
colonel of the regiment. He sought Captain Allen J. Greer, a native of Memphis, who 
was on duty in Tennessee at the time as inspector-instructor of the state guard. Captain 
Greer, who later was promoted and became chief of staff of the Ninety-second Division, 
had had many years of army experience in the United States and the Philippines, and 


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had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for exceptional bravery. He gave 
his assent to Senator Lea’s proposal and assisted in the paper organization of the regiment, 
but when his application for transfer to it was placed before the War Department it was 
disapproved as a matter of policy, because officers of the regular army were in so great 
demand elsewhere in the training and staff work of our vastly enlarged military estab- 
lishment. 

Consequently, when the official personnel of the regiment was called formally into 
service on July 25, 1917, there was no full colonel, as Senator Lea was commissioned 
by Governor Rye with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was in full command, however, 
during the time of mobilization and training in Tennessee, as well as during the service at 
Camp Sevier, until he was promoted to a full colonelcy in the fall of 1917 upon the 
recommendation of Brigadier-General George G. Gatley. ; 

Recruiting for the new regiment, with the aid of effective newspaper publicity and 
advertising, started with a flourish during the last days of May, 1917. The provisional 
senior officers were, in addition to Colonel Lea, Major Thomas H, R. McIntyre, of 
Chattanooga, commanding the First Battalion; Major Horace Frierson, Jr., of Columbia, 
commanding the Second Battalion; Captain Edward J. McCormack, of Memphis, Bat- 
tery A; Captain James M. McGaughey, of Chattanooga, Battery B; Captain Roy V. 
Myers, of Knoxville, Battery C; Captain Leon Caraway, of Big Sandy, Battery D; 
Captain Thomas P. Henderson, of Franklin, Battery F; Captain Frank Gracey, of 
Clarksville, Headquarters Company; Captain Robert A. Bailey, Jr., of Franklin, Supply 
Company. Major Larkin Smith, of Nashville, who commanded the sanitary detachment, 
was appointed examining surgeon to determine the physical fitness of those who offered 
themselves for enlistment. Each captain had the assistance of his lieutenants in the recruit- 
ing campaign, which lasted approximately two months, although the great majority of the 
men were enlisted in a much shorter period. At Nashville, owing to the delay in the 
naming of a provisional captain, the recruiting was done by Lieutenants Robert G. Fields, 
James E. Brock, John Wesley Gaines, Jr., and William Y. Elliott. Regimental head- 
quarters was established at Nashville, with Captain Leland S. McPhail as regimental 
adjutant. Colonel Lea and he directed the general campaign for recruits, lending their 
personal aid wherever the work lagged or difficulties were encountered. 

In the four large cities of the state, Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville, 
the great majority of the men who were enlisted came from within the corporation or 
county boundaries, only a few being recruited from the surrounding country. Battery D, 
however, drew its members from Jackson, Paris and Huntingdon, as well as Big Sandy, 
the home of Captain Caraway. The larger number of the men in Battery F came from 
Franklin, Columbia, and Lawrenceburg, or the territory immediately surrounding. The 
counties, of which these were the county-seats, furnished almost exactly the same propor- 
tion. Most of the men of the Headquarters and Supply Companies, which were much 
reduced numerically from the strength which they had later under the revised tables of 
organization, enlisted from Nashville and Clarksville. 


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In all of the batteries and companies a much larger number of men applied for enlist- 
ment than were accepted. Major Smith was rigorous in his examination of applicants, 
for they were so numerous that it was possible to maintain the highest standards and get 
the very best men, physically and mentally, in the state. The result was that the regiment 
was made up very largely of picked men, many of them being college students or grad- 
uates, while a very large number were graduates of or students in high schools when they 
enlisted. The percentage of illiteracy, therefore, was very small. The wisdom of this 
course in selecting an enlisted personnel of more than average intelligence was manifested 
later in two ways. At Camp Sevier, where schools were held to teach the illiterates 
reading and writing, the regiment had fewer men in them, proportionately, than 
any unit of the Thirtieth Division. On the other hand, fifty-four men of the regiment who 
enlisted in the ranks received commissions from second lieutenant to captain before they 
were mustered out of service after the close of hostilities. 

Drilling and recruiting were carried along simultaneously, The different units of the 
regiment were fortunate in having splendid drill grounds. Battery A used the Tri-State 
Fair grounds at Memphis; Battery B the campus of the University of Chattanooga; 
Battery C the athletic field of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Battery D a 
well-equipped field at Paris; Battery E, the Headquarters and Supply Companies the 
Vanderbilt campus and athletic field at Nashville; Battery F the splendid drill grounds 
of the Columbia Military Academy at Columbia. The men were not issued complete 
uniforms until August, and so by dint of circumstances they were forced to use civilian 
clothing for the most part for more than two months in their training. Work went on, in 
spite of this handicap, with great enthusiasm, and when the regiment entrained for Camp 
Sevier early in September the men were as thoroughly versed in infantry foot drill as a 
regular army organization with many months of training. They had mastered squad, 
platoon and company formations with great thoroughness. 

These three months of June, July and August, 1917, were trying ones on the officers 
of the regiment. They started almost as devoid of military training as the men under 
them. They studied their drill regulations by night and recruited and drilled the organi- 
zations by day. Att the same time, they had to leam the intricacies and red tape of 
army paper work. In: the absence of instructors, they were forced to dig it out by them- 
selves from manuals and army regulations. Another burden on them was the enforcement 
of proper discipline. The men under them were still among friends and relatives, in the 
towns and cities in which they had grown up, and living under much harder conditions 
than most of them had been accustomed to. There was every inducement to make 
discipline difficult. The splendid spirit among the enlisted personnel, however, removed 
most of these difficulties and there were but few instances in which battery punishment was 
necessary. The non-commissioned officers gave splendid support to the officers by setting 
the nght example before the men of their squads and sections. 

There were.many amusing incidents in these early days during the organization of 
the regiment. One or two will be given in passing to show how “‘green’’ both officers 


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and men were. A heavy thundershower blew up a July afternoon while a certain lieu- 
tenant was dmilling his battery. He forgot his drill regulations for the moment, but to 
give himself time to think of the right command, “‘Fall out,” he swung them into battery 
front and dressed them to the right. Still he could not think of the proper command, and 
the rain was pattering down like fury upon both himself and his men. He rose to the 
occasion, however, and in a very nonchalant manner bawled out, “Battery, take cover.” 
The men did not question the accuracy of his order, but sought shelter immediately under 
the adjacent trees. 

Until the regiment reached Camp Sevier the extent of the knowledge of most of the 
men with army insignia was the bar of a lieutenant or the two bars of a captain. Some 
of them knew what a gold or silver leaf or even what an eagle signified, but the star of 
a brigadier-general or two stars of a major-general were still a bit beyond them. A day 
or so after arrival, one of the men came across General Gatley tramping through the pine 
forest. He passed the greetings of the day, but gave no sign of saluting. The General, 
somewhat incensed at the man’s lack of military courtesy, asked him in his own expressive 
way if he knew who he (Gatley) was. The private promptly told him with a drawl that 
he must belong to the cavalry, because he had on a yellow hat cord. General Gatley 
appreciated the humor of the situation, but left him in no doubt whatever as to what a 
silver star on the shoulder of an officer meant. 

The favorite slogans in all of the advertising for recruits were: ‘“‘Join the artillery 
and ride” and ‘““Tennessee’s only mounted regiment.’’ Along toward the close of the 
campaign, in order to put a concrete punch to the appeals for men, it was the custom to 
state that ‘““Only four saddles are left’—or whatever was the number of men needed to 
bring an organization up to war strength. During the campaign on the front, after the 
majority of the men had been marching on foot for days and nights, and when the horses 
had dwindled in number until there were scarcely enough strong ones left to pull the guns, 
it was not an infrequent thing to hear some wag, footsore and weary from hiking in the 
mud, yell out ironically, “Join the artillery and ride. Join Tennessee’s only mounted 
regiment. Go with those you know.” It always provoked a chorus of hoots and jeers. 

The regiment formally passed into state service as the First Tennessee Field Artillery 
on July 25, 1917. Commissions were issued late the night previous by Governor Rye 
to the following officers, who were given these assignments by Colonel Lea: 

Luke Lea, lieutenant-colonel; Thomas H. R. McIntyre and Horace Frierson, Jr., 
majors, commanding the First and Second Battalions, respectively; Captain Leland S. 
MacPhail, regimental adjutant; Battery A, Captain Edward J. McCormack, First Lieu- 
tenants Walter Chandler and Guy E. Joyner, Second Lieutenants Paul Bacigalupo and 
James H. Neely; Battery B, Captain James M. McGaughey, First Lieutenants Paul J. 
Callan and Joseph Trimby, Second Lieutenants Elsworth Brown and James C. Trimble; 
Battery C, Captain Roy V. Myers, First Lieutenants Lee Harr and David Brittain, 
Second Lieutenants George F. Milton, Jr., and Vance Turner; Battery D, Captain Leon 
Caraway, First Lieutenants James H. Moses and Emil Caldwell, Second Lieutenants 


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Gorden Browning and Dugger Rainey; Battery E, Captain Baxter Sweeney, First Lieu- 
tenants Robert G. Fields and James E. Brock, Second Lieutenants William Y. Elliott 
and John Wesley Gaines, Jr.; Battery F, Captain Thomas P. Henderson, First Lieu- 
tenants E. C. McNeal and Joseph Dunlop, Second Lieutenants Enoch Brown, Jr., and 
Minter Gant; Battalion Adjutants, Captains Mitchell Long, of Knoxville, and Reese 
Amis, of Franklin; Headquarters Company, Captain Frank Gracey, First Lieutenant 
Frank Cheek, Second Lieutenant Broadus Bailey; Supply Company, Captain Robert A. 
Bailey, Jr., First Lieutenant N. Baxter Jackson; Sanitary Detachment, Major Larkin 
Smith, First Lieutenants George Williamson and Harlin G. Tucker; Dental Detachment, 
First Lieutenant Lew W. Daugherty; Veterinary Detachment, First Lieutenant Clemens 
E. Kord; Chaplain, Eugene T. Clarke. 

Captain Long, who was a member of the first training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., 
did not accept the commission tendered him as battalion adjutant, and so Lieutenant 
Enoch Brown, Jr., was advanced almost immediately to the rank of captain to fill the 
vacancy. Captain Long, however, transferred to the regiment during the fall of 1917 
from the Thirty-first Division artillery, to which he was assigned after receiving his 
commission as lieutenant at the training camp. Lieutenant Broadus Bailey was trans- 
ferred to Battery F to supply the vacancy there, but remained only a few days, as Francis 
Warfield, first sergeant of the organization, received his commission as second lieutenant. 

Of all these officers, who were commissioned in July, 1917, only the following 
remained with the regiment throughout its period of service and received their discharges 
with it in Apnil, 1919: Colonel Lea, Major Frierson, Captain MacPhail, Captain 
Joyner, Lieutenant Brown, Major Myers, Captain Browning, Captain Fields, Captain 
Henderson, Captain Brown, Captain Amis, and Major Smith. But three of them— 
Colonel Lea, Major Frierson, and Major Smith—remained throughout in their original 
assignments, the other nine officers being switched or changed at one time or another to 
other organizations within the regiment. 

The other thirty-five officers who were commissioned with the regiment either trans- 
ferred, resigned, or were detailed as instructors to other regiments or brigades. Major 
McIntyre, Captain Chandler, and Lieutenant Milton transferred to Fifty-Fifth Brigade 
Headquarters, and Captain Sweeney to the 115th Field Artillery; Captain Caraway, 
Captain Gracey, Lieutenants Bacigalupo, Neely, Trimble, Trimby, Brittain, Turner, 
Moses, Caldwell, Rainey, Cheek and Clarke resigned, some of them returning later into 
other branches of the army or into the navy; Captain McCormack and Lieutenants Harr 
and Gaines were returned to the United States as instructors on the eve of the departure 
of the regiment from Camp Coetquidan; Captain Bailey, with Lieutenant John K. 
Gunby, who was assigned to the regiment on its arrival at Camp Sevier, was ordered 
about the same time by G. H. Q. to Camp de Souge, France, as instructor; Captain 
McGaughey transferred to the cavalry, and Lieutenant Callan to the aviation corps; 
Lieutenant Brock served with Battery E. throughout the period of hostilities, but trans- 
ferred at Le Mans to the regular army; Lieutenant Elliott received an appointment to 


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attend school in Paris just before the regiment came home; Lieutenant McNeal spent 
some weeks as an officer of the 105th Ammunition Train, but rejoined Battery F before 
its activities on the front; Lieutenant Dunlop, on account of ill health, was forced to 
leave his battery before its departure to Camp Sevier; Lieutenant Gant transferred to the 
120th Infantry, Thirtieth Division, at Camp Sevier; Lieutenant Baxter Jackson, who was 
promoted to captain and placed in command of the Headquarters Company, was ordered 
on special duty to G. H. Q., where he rose to the rank of major and was placed in charge 
of a special section; Lieutenant Williamson was forced to resign on account of illness in 
his family, while Lieutenant Tucker transferred to the regular army and was ordered to 
a base hospital while the regiment was in the Argonne Forest; Lieutenant Broadus Bailey 
transferred to the Second Tennessee Infantry; Lieutenants Daugherty and Kord were 
ordered at Le Mans to join the Third Army in Germany; and Lieutenant Warfield 
transferred at Camp Sevier to the 105th Engineers, in which he rose to a captaincy. 

The regiment automatically passed into federal service on August 5, 1917, under 
the proclamation of President Wilson drafting all national guard units into the federal 
army. Likewise, it passed at the same time from state control to the command of the 
Southeastern Department at Charleston, S. C. On account of the sudden entrance of 
sO many units under the department’s supervision, together with the fact that the telegraph 
was the main channel of communication on many matters pertaining to enlistment, supplies 
and organization, the paper work of the regiment during August was exceedingly difficult. 
This was further increased and intensified by the location of the batteries in different 
parts of the state. Many problems, which could have been settled satisfactorily in a few 
moments if the regiment had been mobilized in a single camp, dragged for weeks and 
caused interminable correspondence. Battery commanders and their clerks had not 
mastered paper work, making it very hard for regimental headquarters to secure uniformity 
and exactness in making reports. Uniforms were difficult to obtain from the quartermaster 
depot at Atlanta because of the great demand for equipping so many regiments at once. 
It was not until toward the middle of August that they began to arrive, much to the 
jubilation of the troops, whose civilian clothes were beginning to appear seedy, and whose 
military ardor showed signs of drooping for lack of the uniform of war. Even when 
uniforms, shoes, hats, socks, belts and other clothing did come, they were of all sizes and 
very few of them gave perfect fits. 

After the arrival of clothing, rumors began to fly thick and fast about the time of the 
regiment’s departure for a training camp and where this camp would be. But orders to 
move were not as numerous as the speculations upon these subjects. It was not until the 
last of August that Colonel Lea received definite instructions naming Camp Sevier at 
Greenville, S. C., as the training center, and ordering him to detail one battery to precede 
the regiment so as to prepare a partial camp site for its coming. Battery C, under Captain 
Myers, was chosen because Knoxville was nearest Greenville, With exactly war strength, 
190 men and four lieutenants, Captain Myers entrained on September 3 for the new camp. 
He and his battery were given a great ovation as they marched through the streets of 


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Knoxville to the Southern Railway station. It was the first unit to leave Knoxville for 
the war. 

Though Captain Myers upon arrival sent back dismal reports about the condition of 
the camp and its unreadiness for occupation, they mattered little to the officers and men 
of the regiment, who were anxious to be consolidated into a unit, receive equipment and 
training, and then go to France to see active service. They had not yet grown old in 
the heart-sickening delays that were so often their lot in later army life. They merely 
wanted to get a change of scenery, even if it was the pine forest that was to be their home 
for eight months, and see some real action. 

The order from the Southeastern Department for the departure of the remainder of 
the regiment came shortly after Battery C left Knoxville. Colonel Lea immediately issued 
a regimental order directing that Batteries A, D, and F should proceed on the morning 
of September 9 from their rendezvous points, Memphis, Paris, and Columbia, respectively, 
to Nashville, to join Battery E, the Headquarters Company and the Supply Company. 
These consolidated units were to depart the same afternoon for Chattanooga, where, after 
picking up Battery B, the regiment was to continue to Greenville. 

The day set for entraining and departure was Sunday, September 9. With much 
bustle and hurry all records and baggage were carted to the railroad station bright and 
early. The day dawned cloudy and inauspicious for a great crowd at Nashville to speed 
the departing soldiers. However, as the hours wore on, the clouds disappeared and the 
sun of a beautiful autumn day burst out in all its splendor. Battery F arrived from 
Columbia about noon, and Batteries A and D from Memphis and Paris at about 2 
o'clock. Each of them was above war strength; in fact, Colonel Lea had been forced 
to obtain special permission from the Southeastern Department the day previous to bring 
extra men, as the morning report showed that the regiment as a whole was twenty-four 
men above what was then war strength for a regiment of light field artillery. 

Instead of a few thousand friends and relatives to bid them farewell, as most had 
expected, conservative estimates of the number which lined the streets of Nashville for 
blocks in an effort to see the parade of the regiment ran as high as 50,000. Colonel Lea 
and his staff on splendid mounts led the parade, which started from Union Station shortly 
after the arrival of Batteries A and D. It wound up Broad Street to Eighth Avenue, 
thence to Church Street, where it turned up Fifth Avenue, led through the business district, 
and then back to the railroad station. The troops marched through a solid mass of people. 

Upon the retum to the railroad station, the batteries and companies were drawn up 
on either side of Broad Street, and E. C. Faircloth, upon behalf of the friends of the 
regiment and the citizens of Nashville, presented to Colonel Lea a very handsome and 
beautiful silk flag. In accepting it for the regiment, Colonel Lea made the following 
brief but eloquent address: 

“On behalf of the members of the First Tennessee Field Artillery, I accept this 
sacred trust you have imposed on us to protect these colors that symbolize American lib- 
erty. In this flag there is the blue of heaven, the ideals of our government itself; red for 


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the blood that flows in every American citizen; and white, signifying the noble purity of 
our American womanhood. 

“IT ask you here today to gaze on the individual members of the First Tennessee Field 
Artillery and behold your jewels. Everyone of them you must hold sacred, for they 
have sacrificed everything that they hold dearest in life, and now they offer to give that 
life itself that liberty, cradled in the minds of our forefathers, may live. They offer all 
they have, and if it takes life itself, they will proudly lay it down that this liberty may 
continue to you. I say to gaze upon them, for as you do so you may be gazing for the 
last time upon the faces of some of them. Many of us may not return, but whether facing 
life’s setting sun in our own little homes, surrounded by those we love, or whether it be 
on the battlefields of France amid the groans of the dying and the still forms of the dead, 
it will be with the same reverence for Tennessee. . 

“Goodbye, mother Tennessee. You gave us the land of our birth, and here and 
now we consecrate and dedicate every fiber of our being to you and to America. Good- 
bye. May God bless and keep us all.” 

Following Colonel Lea’s address, the batteries and companies filed through the sta- 
tion to their cars. Passage through the waiting room and the gates was almost impos- 
sible, for it literally seemed that thousands had gathered inside and on the steps to bid a 
final farewell to the men. This was particularly true of the Nashville organizations, 
which broke ranks to reciprocate the affection showered upon them. After several min- 
utes of delay, all men were on the trains, which ran in two sections. The first departed 
shortly after 4 o’clock, the other a little later. On the first were the regimental staff, the 
Headquarters and Supply Companies, and Batteries E and F. Batteries A and D, 
which followed on the second train, picked up Battery B at Chattanooga. The latter 
also had received a splendid send-off at the hands of their Chattanooga friends. 

Both trains got away from Chattanooga before midnight on their journey to Green- 
ville, going by way of Atlanta on the trip, About noon Monday, Athens, Ga., was 
reached. The ladies of the Red Cross were on hand with coffee, sandwiches and other 
good things to eat, and the entire regiment had a delightful dinner. A\s the train schedule 
provided for a stop of an hour or more, Colonel Lea formed the regiment after all had 
eaten, and a parade, led by the regimental band, was given through the main streets so 
that the men might have an opportunity for exercising after nearly a day on the train. 

The first section arrived at Paris, S. C., the siding at which the regiment was to 
detrain to march to camp, in the small hours of September 11. Colonel Lea, with a 
small party of officers, immediately left the train and went out to the camp, roused up 
Captain Myers, told him of the arrival of the rest of the regiment, and had him begin 
preparations with his men for the coming of the other batteries and companies. 


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the range at Cleveland Mills. 
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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Camp Sevier 


Camp Sevier 


S| T was a cold, dreary and desolate world into which the men were yanked 
forth about 4 o'clock on the morning of September 11 at Paris station. 
Wintry breezes, whistling around the temporary little building, sent cold 
chills up the back and cut clear to the marrow, as the temperature was 
several degrees lower than when sunny Tennessee was left behind. It was 
still dark when the regiment, led by guides from Battery C, set out on foot to its new 
camp across wornout fields, along old roads, then into sparse woods, and finally—plump 
into a veritable pine wilderness! It was as gloomy and almost as devoid of all light as 
the proverbial Stygian darkness. Even at midday a herd of elephants would have been 
secure from all observation at a distance of a hundred yards or so. And this was to be 
the camp at which a whole regiment of artillery was to maneuver and obtain its training 
in open field warfare against the Germans! The battle front seemed mighty far away 
that morning in the cold, gray dawn. 

When daylight finally filtered fully through the pine branches, our gaze rested upon 
a few mess halls, which, in their primitive setting, might easily have passed for the rude 
shacks of the hardy frontiersmen who settled this section more than a century before. 
These and a few wagon tracks made in hauling lumber for the buildings were the sole 
evidences of civilization. It was evident to even the most uninitiated that we, as well as 


our forefathers, were going to have to do some rather extensive pioneering. 

Hot coffee, a strip of bacon or so, and some bread, which were hastily prepared by 
the cooks and mess sergeants, together with fires that were soon roaring out of the stray 
planks and scantlings that were lying around, drove off the chill and permitted some 
semblance of order to be restored out of the chaotic condition of affairs. 

Battery areas and mess halls were assigned by Colonel Lea, details were sent after 
the baggage, and axes, picks and other tools were distributed among the organizations so 
that trees, stumps and brush might be cleared away for the tents. By night a pretty 
good-sized hole had been hewed or hacked out of this “‘forest primeval,” and there was 
room enough for all tents to be pitched in some sort of a line. Fires roared most of the 
night, which was very cold. Blankets were none too plentiful. Wood, on the other 
hand, was more than abundant. 

Had all the wood which was burned by the regiment at Camp Sevier been bought 
by the government at the rates which we later paid for it in France and Luxemburg, the 
cost would have been enough to have endowed heavily a modern university or built a 
superdreadnaught or so. Literally, there was wood to ““burn,’”’ and burning was the only 
way of getting it out of the way. Though many of the pine trees would have made 
thousands of feet of the finest }umber—some of them were fifty feet or more to the first 


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limb and three feet or better in diameter—and would have commanded a fancy price on 
the market for building cantonments, the government had no sawmills or other ways of 
disposing of these trees and so they went up in smoke during the fall and winter of 1917. 
But some of that fat pine, after seasoning a little, did burn mighty well those cold nights 
and mornings! 

While this preliminary work of clearing a camp site was going on, the organization 
of the division was fast taking place. Two or three days after his arrival, Colonel Lea 
was summoned to headquarters near Paris, where Major-General John F. Morrison, the 
division commander, announced to all commanding officers the plan of reorganization. 
Under it the regiment became the 114th Field Artillery; the First Tennessee Infantry, 
under the command of Colonel Harry S. Berry, was converted to the 115th Field Artil- 
lery; the First North Carolina Field Artillery, commanded by Colonel Albert L. Cox, 
became the 113th Field Artillery; while Troop D, Tennessee Cavalry, of Knoxville, 
under Captain Ambrose Gaines, was converted to the 105th Trench Mortar Battery. 
These four organizations composed the Fifty-fifth Artillery Brigade of the Thirtieth 
Division. The 113th and 114th Field Artillery were designated as light artillery regi- 
ments to be equipped with American three-inch guns, while the 115th Field Artillery was 
made a heavy artillery outfit, which was to become a motorized six-inch howitzer regiment. 
The 105th Ammunition Train, formerly the Second South Carolina Infantry, under 
Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Lewis, was attached later to the brigade and functioned with 
it throughout the overseas service. 

Necessarily, all drilling was suspended for two or three weeks after arrival at camp, 
until the virgin forest had been cleared up somewhat, trees and brush cut out, battery and 
company streets and walks laid out, roads built and a more comfortable and presentable 
camp prepared. There was a great shortage of axes and spades for this work, delaying 
its completion considerably. Att first, the trees were simply cut down and burned, but 
later in the fall, as well as during the following spring, every stump was taken out and 
the ground leveled off. While no estimate was ever made of the amount of ground that 
was thus cleared up, it would not be far from the truth to state that close to 100 acres 
were grubbed and cleaned of every vestige of bush, shrub or forest tree. In addition, 
many days were put on the road through the camp, cutting it down in the high places, 
carrying the dirt to fill lower ones, while men under sentence in the guard house beautified 
the officers’ rectangle. Considerable drainage was done on the south side of the camp, 
as it was low and boggy. This improvement work was carried out vigorously throughout 
the eight months the regiment was stationed at Camp Sevier, and by the time it was 
ordered overseas in May, 1918, a prettier, more sanitary or more healthy camp site could 
not have been wished for. Only one thing was needed to make it ideal—a large and 
level drill ground. 

While this manual labor in clearing the camp went pretty hard on men, especially 
those who had never done such work before, it was undoubtedly a blessing in disguise. 
It hardened and bronzed them until they did not look like the same men at the end of a 


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couple of months. Nearly all of them put on flesh, their muscles grew hard, and their 
endurance became much greater. Had they not had this strenuous exercise out of doors 
during the fall, there is no doubt that many would have died during the bitter winter that 
ensued. No men, soft from indoor work and well-heated private homes, could have 
endured it. Of the experiences and hardships of these days at Camp Sevier and the life 
that the men led, Private Lawrence M. Connolly, of Battery A, has written in his 
‘Blowing the Blues,’’ or “From Bughouse to Berlin and Back.’’ The poem is called 
“The Rookie’s Prayer.” It is as follows: 


“Oh, Lord, I creak like a rusty hinge, and my feet have gone to sleep. 
My nerves are like a tangled fringe; there’s a hole two inches deep 
Where the trigger-guard rubs collarbone; and my brain is in a reel, 
But I musn’t curse and I will not groan in spite of my blistered heel. 
I made the hike, and I stood the test; it wasn’t just merely luck, 
For I wasn’t allowed to stop and rest, but I stuck, O Lord, I stuck! 


“I took my turn at the shovel and pick when the sun was broiling red. 
I didn’t stall or play off sick, though I longed for a day in bed. 
But I squared my jaw till it ached again, and I swore I wouldn’t quit. 
I needed a rest so much just then, but I would not ask for it. 
In spite of the burning and blistered palms that fall to the lot of the “‘buck,”’ 
With my tired back and aching arms, I stuck, O Lord, I stuck! 


“Tt won’t be long til I’m on my way to ship from a Jersey pier. 
I’m ready now—Lord, speed the day—Oh, when do we go from here? 
The transport’s path across the foam by U-boats is beset, 
And I'll be a long, long way from home, and the ocean’s awful wet! 
But bayonet thrust, or cannon’s roar, or saber, or bomb, or pick— 
Just give me nerve, and I won’t ask more. God, give me the grit to stick!” 


As soon as the battery and company streets and the spaces between the mess halls 
had been cleared of stumps and brush, a limited schedule of daily physical exercises and 
artillery drill was begun. No guns had arrived for the training of the regiment or brigade, 
but Brigadier-General George G. Gatley, of the regular army, who had been assigned 
as brigade commander, met the situation temporarily by having each battery build wooden 
guns with which to drill. They were extremely crude, consisting of little more than a 
few poles nailed together, but they served a very useful purpose until the arrival in 
November of four three-inch American steel guns, model 1902. These wooden guns 
proved a pretty severe strain upon the imagination of both officers and men, only a very 
small number of whom had ever seen a real three-inch gun, and whose conception of them 
was derived mainly from pictures and descriptions of their use from the drill regulations. 


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Even after the arrival of the battery of real guns, drill was continued a great deal of the 
time with the wooden ones, for the other two regiments of the brigade were entitled to 
and had the use of the former two-thirds of the time. Colonel Lea insisted, and he was 
backed in this by General Gatley, that the fundamentals of gun drill could be learned 
very thoroughly by study of the drill regulations and the application of its principles upon 
the wooden guns. But how monotonous it grew, both to instructors and men! Often, 
after a week of this monotonous daily grind, especially when the weather was cold, digging 
stumps came as an actual relief. 

In addition to the wooden guns, General Gatley also rigged up wooden pointing 
boards, some calibrated from right to left, others from left to ght, to correspond to the 
sighting apparatus on steel guns and to the telescope used by the battery commander in 
calculating his angular data. These, too, provided some variety for a time, but soon 
became tiresome, for they visualized but poorly the actual fire control instruments. | 

Schools for both officers and non-commissioned officers were held day and night along 
with this practical work. The senior officers of the whole brigade met each afternoon 
at General Gatley’s headquarters, where they heard lectures by members of his staff, or 
other instructors, upon the various branches and departments of artillery. Colonel Lea 
also inaugurated night schools for the junior officers and the non-commissioned officers. 
The former studied drill regulations, firing data, and received a resume of whatever had 
been heard earlier in the afternoon at the brigade school. Battery officers taught nightly 
their non-com. schools, with the drill regulations as the textbook. 

Upon the regiment’s arrival at Camp Sevier there were already there about a dozen 
second lieutenants, graduates of the first officers’ training camp at Fort Meyer, Virginia, 
waiting for assignment. Colonel Lea was very fortunate in the selections he made from 
them, for those whom he picked proved to be among the best officers the regiment had 
during its service. Among them were Lieutenant John K. Gunby, assigned to Bat- 
tery C; Lieutenant Alex W. Boone, Battery B; Lieutenant John L. Lewis, Battery F; 
and Lieutenant John H. East, Battery A. However, under the new tables of organi- 
zation, which became effective in the fall of 1917, the number of officers in the Head- 
quarters Company was increased from two to sixteen, while the number of battery officers 
was decreased considerably by several resignations and transfers. “This produced a con- 
siderable shortage of officers in the regiment. There was every prospect that it would 
grow more acute from further transfers and resignations, and from the demands of special 
schools for student officers. The school for aerial observers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 
alone took away four officers permanently from the regiment—Lieutenants Callan, East, 
Gilbert, and Faircloth. 

To meet this shortage, Colonel Lea received the permission of General Gatley to 
start a special training school for second lieutenants, who were to be drawn from the 
enlisted personnel of the regiment. A thorough course in the calculation of firing data 
and in the drill regulations was given these candidates, who numbered about twenty in 
the two schools which were held. From them the following were recommended for com- 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Camp Sevier 


Missions and received them: Mat Monaghan, Battery A; Jesse M. Mitchell and 
Clarence H. McCollum, Battery B; John W. Gilbert, Battery C; Clyde Hunter, 
Battery D; Frank B. Evers, Robert H. Bell and E. C. Faircloth, Jr., Battery E; 
Thomas W. Pointer and J. B. Sharp, Battery F; Horace Polk and Charles Nelson, 
Headquarters Company, Early in 1918 four other men who had been enlisted especially 
on account of their technical ability—Clark N. Bass, Thomas D. Maher, John W. 
Shaw, and Daniel O. Smith—were commissioned from the ranks as second lieutenants. 
Thereafter, no other non-commissioned officers were commissioned within the regiment, 
as they were either sent to the third officers’ training camp at Leon Springs, Texas, or 
to the Saumur Artillery School in France. 

In the readjustment and reassignment of officers after the regiment had been in 
training at Camp Sevier for several weeks, there were many changes in the senior officers. 
On October 20 Colonel Lea received his promotion to a full colonelcy, thanks to the 
effective support given him by General Gatley. When he was first recommended for 
promotion the War Department rejected it on the ground that there were three surplus 
colonels in the division, due to consolidation or absorption of regiments. General Gatley, 
however, renewed his recommendation, stating that Colonel Lea had raised the regiment 
and that he had shown exceptional ability in its training and direction. Winning over 
Major-General Townsley, who was in command of the division at the time, their joint 
fight was successful and Colonel Lea received his eagles. To fill the vacancy made by 
his promotion, Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Gleason, of Knoxville, who had been left 
without command when his organization, the Second Tennessee Infantry, was absorbed 
in the two infantry brigades of the division, was transferred to the regiment. Colonel 
Gleason, who had had twenty years of experience as an infantryman, was averse at first 
to the change, because he thought it would be rather difficult for an old dog, as he 
expressed it, to learn new tricks, However, he soon became reconciled to and even 
pleased with the artillery and made a most excellent officer. 

After Major MclIntyre transferred to brigade headquarters as brigade adjutant, 
Captain Myers, of Battery C, was promoted to his majority and to command of the 
First Battalion. Lieutenants Walter Chandler and Baxter Jackson also received promo- 
tions, Captain Chandler going from Battery A to command the Supply Company, while 
Captain Jackson was transferred from the Supply Company to the head of the Head- 
quarters Company after Captain Gracey’s resignation. Captain Bailey became regimental 
adjutant when Captain MacPhail was shifted to command of Battery B to succeed 
Captain McGaughey, who was made battalion adjutant and later transferred to the 
cavalry. Captain Amis, who had served as one of the battalion adjutants, became the 
head of Battery C upon Captain Myers’ promotion to battalion commander. 

The first death in the regiment occurred on October 11, 1917. Malcolm C. Pat- 
terson, a member of Battery F, was a victim of spinal meningitis after a brief illness. 
As a result of it, Captain Henderson and his whole battery were quarantined for weeks 
in the woods south of the regimental camp. They built a new camp site, laid out on 


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ample lines, where they carried on their work independently of the other batteries, which 
were shut off from all contact with them by order of the division surgeon. This worked 
a considerable hardship upon the members of Battery F, but there were no other cases 
of the dreaded disease. In fact, the regiment throughout its whole stay at Camp Sevier 
was remarkably free from all disease, with the exception of the month of December, when 
there were several deaths from pneumonia. ‘There were eleven deaths in all from Sep- 
tember to May. Very few men became sick enough to go to the base hospital tor 
treatment, for their ailments were principally minor ones which were treated by the regi- 
mental surgeon, his assistants, or members of the sanitary detachment. 

Camp Sevier, like most of the national guard camps, did not have the conveniences 
and comforts with which the regular and national army cantonments were provided. 
There were no barracks, steam heat, or other camp luxuries. Men and officers lived 
through an extremely severe winter of cold, snow and disagreeable weather in tents with 
wooden floors and boxed up about three feet on the sides. During the fall the men lived 
as many as eleven to a tent, but this number was reduced to six or seven later when the 
danger from contagious diseases became so pronounced. ‘They were required to sleep 
head-to-foot to lessen still further this danger. Small Sibley stoves furnished the tents 
with heat. With plenty of wood they could be made fairly comfortable. Rigid inspections 
were made nightly by the guard to see that tent doors were open and flaps to the tents 
thrown back so that there would be plenty of fresh air. As for hot water for bathing, a 
large stove was placed in the bath rooms of alternate batteries to heat the water during 
the winter. This proved rather unsatisfactory, but it at least afforded every man a bath 
each week or so, which was somewhat more often than he received after the regiment 
went on the front. 

A few horses were issued to the batteries two or three months after reaching Camp 
Sevier, but the bulk did not come until some time later. A few saddles and bridles came 
with them and a little harness, but there was not enough of either to be of any very great 
service. The horses, on the average, were very good, but there was really little use for 
them, as there was only one battery of guns in the whole brigade to which to hitch them. 
They did little practical work beyond being broken to ride, though some few were worked 
in harness to the guns when the latter were carried to the artillery range at Cleveland 
Mills in the spring of 1918. The men, however, received a good deal of practical benefit 
from grooming, watering and handling them. They learned also something about stable 
management and the care of harness and material. A\ll of the horses were turned back 
to the remount station just before the regiment left the camp for overseas duty in May. 

Camp Sevier was an interminable succession of schools. There were schools for 
cooks, schools for horseshoers; schools for non-coms., schools for officers; schools for gas, 
schools for observers; schools for radio men, schools for telephonists; and so on almost 
without limit. There was some benefit in some of them, very little in most of them. The 
most that can be said of them is that they prepared men and officers for the training they 
received later at Camp Coetquidan in France. The regiment was able to accomplish 


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a great deal more in a short time than it would have done without this preliminary 
instruction at Camp Sevier. The French materiel, method of artillery fire, and general 
use of artillery were quite different from that in which the regiment was trained in the 
United States, but it was a very easy and short matter to learn them after months of 
grinding study and drill of American artillery. 

The most tortuous school which the officers attended was the School of Fire at Fort 
Sill, Oklahoma, a school in which the attempt seemed to be made to render the easy 
difficult and the difficult inscrutable, unattainable for a man of ordinary sense. It was 
a gnill, a veritable chamber of horrors for every man who went there. Major Frierson 
went first from the regiment, and he was followed at intervals of about two weeks by 
most of the senior officers. The order in which they went was: Major Myers, Captain 
Fields, Captain Amis, Captain Caraway, Captain McCormack, Captain MacPhail, 
Captain Brown, Captain Henderson, Captain Sweeney, Captain Jackson, Captain Bailey, 
and Captain Long. Not all of them, however, finished the ten weeks’ course in artillery 
firing, because the regiment was ordered to France before the expiration of their sentence 
there. Colonel Lea and Colonel Gleason, after completing a month’s course for field 
officers at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, or at “‘the canning factory for national guard 
colonels,” as it was called, also came to Fort Sill and went through the school there. 
Survival of these two schools proved their sterling value as military men. 

During their absence of about three and a half months, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas 
D. Osborne, of the regular army, was in command of the regiment. To him was due a 
great deal of the credit for its discipline and splendid training. He was a West Pointer, 
a born executive, and one of the most capable artillery officers in our army. He had 
been a battery commander and knew from years of actual experience all of the minutiz, 
the numberless details in the practical handling of a battery. He also knew thoroughly 
the American theory and practice of artillery firing. As an executive he commanded 
without fear or partiality, and he had the respect and entire confidence of every man and 
officer in the regiment. It was a matter of genuine regret to all of them that he was not 
allowed to see service in France, where his unquestioned ability undoubtedly would have 
been rewarded with a further promotion in rank and command. He served throughout 
the fighting as commander of the field artillery brigade firing center at Camp Jackson, 
South Carolina. 

Shortly after his coming to the camp, Colonel Osborne built a schoolhouse on the 
officers’ rectangle. It was meant to serve also as a recreation center, so that officers might 
have a little diversion after the day’s duties and the night schools were over. But it was 
used very little for this, for there was no time left, as a rule, after the non-com. school 
earlier in the evening and the officers’ school under Colonel Osborne later on. However, 
it was of some value, in that it served as a meeting place once a day for all officers to 
come together, work off their grouches, and tell each other their troubles. Colonel Osborne 
taught the same subjects that were given at Fort Sill. He did a great deal of the teaching 


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himself, though as officers returned after completing their courses he used them as instruc- 
tors. After he was ordered to Camp Jackson, Colonel Lea continued the school, extending 
the course to include the manual of courts-martial and the army regulations. 

Early in 1918 an inspector from the office of Major-General Snow, chief of field 
artillery, visited the brigade and made a careful survey of its training. In February an 
official document from the office of General Snow upon the inspection of fifteen artillery 
brigades of national guard divisions had the following reference to the Fifty-fifth 
Bngade: 

“In only four brigades is there anything approaching a satisfactory state of discipline 
in all the organizations of the brigade. The most serious condition existing in the field 
artillery brigades of the national guard is the lack of progress in training. In these four 
brigades only is there anything like intensive training going on. In these four brigades 
training is intensive and rapid progress is being made. In the Fifty-fifth Brigade the 
brigade commander was with his brigade, and although the brigade had no artillery 
material except such as had been improvised, and no fire contro] equipment, either ordnance 
or signal, rapid progress was being made.”” In this compliment the regiment, which was 
perhaps the most advanced of the three regiments in training, shared. 

As soon as the worst part of the winter was over, smoke bomb practice was started 
on the dnill grounds. Two hours of this drill was given daily to the officers of the 
regiment and it proved of very considerable benefit to them. Most of them had never 
seen a three-inch gun fired, though they had now had almost six months of theoretical 
training. The smoke bombs gave them a very fair conception of what the bursts from 
a real shell looked like. “This opportunity was soon afforded them, for by March 15 the 
artillery range at Cleveland Mills, about twenty miles from Camp Sevier, was completed, 
targets set up, and buildings were ready for the occupation of the brigade in the final 
period of its training. 

The regiment, as usual, was picked to go first. The schedule provided that it should 
have two weeks at the range and that its allowance of ammunition should be 6,000 
rounds, or about 1,000 rounds to each battery. There were tents, buildings and mess 
halls sufficient to accommodate one battalion, or three batteries, at one time. The other 
battalion remained at the old camp, did all the policing of the regimental area, cared for 
the stables, and, if there was any time left, carried out the regular drill schedule. 

General Gatley moved his headquarters to Cleveland Mills and remained there 
throughout the training of the brigade, supervising in a general way the program of 
firing, although Colonel Osborne directed it until he was ordered away, Colonel Cox, of 
the 113th Field Artillery, then taking over the duty of instructor. Ass many officers from 
the three regiments as could be spared conveniently from them at a time remained at the 
range in order to fire or to get the benefit of others who were firing. General Gatley 
ordered a pretty rigorous schedule, for everyone had to be out before daylight, get 
breakfast ,and be up on top of the hill, from which the firing could be observed, by 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Camp Sevier 


eight o’clock. And woe unto the battery commander who did not have the guns in 
position for firing at the appointed time! 

The range was a wild, wooded area, broken by gullies and hills and open land. The 
targets were difficult, much more so than those at Fort Sill, and afforded the most excel- 
lent practice in open field work. Firing began about eight o’clock, continued until noon, 
when the rolling kitchen was brought up to serve hot dinner, started again about one 
o'clock and continued until Jate afternoon. Both gunners and officers were always glad 
to call it a day when the order to cease firing and limber up was given. Each battery 
received about two days of actual work on the guns. This gave the gun squads fine 
training, and when they later had the French seventy-fives to use in actual combat, they 
handled them with great ease and proficiency in a short time. In addition to this actual 
work upon the guns at the range, the batteries received no small benefit in marching and 
camping in the trips to and from Cleveland Mills. 

After the regiment had completed its two weeks of time and its allowance of ammuni- 
tion at the range, and when spring had begun to bud forth in real earnest in Apmil, 
everyone became restive and impatient to get away to France. There were constant 
rumors that the division was under orders to move. One of these became a partial reality 
toward the latter part of April, for orders were received for an advance detachment of 
officers and enlisted men to go ahead to a French training camp, so that they would be 
equipped to instruct the rest of the division on its arrival. There was quite a hubbub 
throughout the regiment when the order came, for nearly everyone wanted to be chosen 
to go with this advance party. Those finally picked by Colonel Lea were: 

Major Myers, commander of the regimental detachment; Captains McCormack and 
Amis; Lieutenants Evers, Bass, Smith, Maher, Lewis, Bell, Hunter, Polk, Fields, 
Elliott, Joyner, Mitchell, and Gunby; Sergeants Clasgens, Gardner, Rupe, Durham, 
Church, Harris, Rogers, Hardin, McCloud, Klyce, and Fentress; Corporals Smith, 
Oliver, Ezell, Chambers, Tharpe, Booker, Bradley, Carson, Hilburn, Coleman, Haswell, 
and Bunch; Mechanics Amold, Leroy, Evrard, Yenowine, Stuart; Privates Bryant, 
Bicknell, and Upton. With the detachments from the other organizations of the division, 
they left Camp Sevier about May 1, sailed from New York on May 8 upon the big 
liner George Washington, later used as President Wilson’s vessel for trips to Europe, 
and arrived at Brest, France, on May 18. From there a special train carried the brigade 
detachments straight to Camp Le Valdahon, only a short distance from the Swiss border. 
Their stay was cut short, after about a month in the school there, by orders to return to 
Camp Coetquidan, where the remainder of the brigade had come. Though anxious to 
rejoin the regiment, all regretted having to leave Le Valdahon, which was one of the 
finest camps in France, and one where the conditions for study were almost ideal. 

Early in May an inspector from the office of the chief of artillery at Washingtoa 
made his final inspection of the units of the brigade and reported that it was ready for 
foreign service. The regiment went into quarantine for a few days, using them to tum 
in all surplus equipment, make final inventories and reports, and pack up field ranges, 


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Camp Sevier HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


office records and other material that it was necessary to take overseas. Just on the eve 
of leaving, a large consignment of officers came to the regiment by order of the War 
Department. They were much needed at this time, for the advance detachment and the 
artillery school at Fort Sill had shorn the regiment of officers until in some cases there 
was not more than one left to an organization. Among those who came at this time were 
Lieutenants Jefferson W. Findlay, McDonald H. Wilson, Philip P. Cole, James H. 
Neely, James H. Richards, John S. Short, Kellogg Boynton and Martyn W. Hart. 

The regiment bade farewell to Camp Sevier about noon of May 19, 1918, traveling 
to New York by special train and arriving there on the morning of May 21. The next 
five days were spent at Camp Mills, Long Island, where a final inspection of clothing 
and equipment was made by the port authorities. A few officers and men during this 
time were fortunate enough to receive short leaves for visits to the city. On the afternoon 
of May 26 the regiment embarked on the Karoa, a small British vessel, formerly used 
in the Indian trade, but pressed into service as a transport during this critical period of 
the war. That evening it dropped down the harbor to join the remainder of the convoy 
of vessels, which were to make the voyage across the sea together under protection of 
cruisers and submarine chasers against German submarines. 

This chapter, which covers the formative period of the regiment’s career, would be 
incomplete without reference to the services and the unique character of General Gatley, 
whose period with the brigade was soon to be concluded. To him, perhaps, more than 
to any other officer was due the efficiency and the discipline with which the regiment 
sailed. He was a West Point graduate, schooled in all the better qualities which this 
first military academy of our land produces, but singularly lacking in all the pride and 
arrogance that most of its graduates have. He came to the regiment when it was so 
green and utterly lacking in the fundamentals of military knowledge that it, as well as 
the rest of the brigade, must have been a sore trial to his soul. Yet when he found that 
both men and officers realized their ignorance, as those of some national guard organiza- 
tions did not, and were willing, yes, anxious to learn, his attitude immediately changed 
and he became a most inspiring leader. He had a tongue like a whip, and no man or 
officer who felt its lashing ever forgot the experience. Perhaps his most distinguishing 
quality was his warmth of heart. He did not stand off, separate and apart from his 
men, but went among them and studied them. He knew the second lieutenants as well 
as the colonels of his regiments. It was not often that his estimate of their abilities was 
wrong. When he left the brigade on July 6, 1918, to assume command of the Sixty- 
seventh Field Artillery Brigade, Forty-second Division, he went with the undivided con- 
fidence, respect and admiration of all the men and officers who had hitherto served 
under him. 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Camp Coeiquidan 


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‘ley nightmare. The Karoa was little more Sade a tub, hastily icmed for 
ail the transport service, which bobbed and bumped about on the ocean like a 

® chip. Men and officers were packed on it almost as tight as sardines. The 
fare, which was very different from that to which all had been accustomed, was bad, 
while the quarters were even worse. Nearly everyone became seasick, some staying in 
their bunks almost from land to land. 

The submarine menace was at its crest at this time. All troop transports were heavily 
convoyed, and a zigzag course across the ocean was pursued so that submarines might 
not know where to lie in wait for boats. When a day or two off the Irish coast, they 
were always met by cruisers and submarine chasers, which hovered around them through 
the danger zone. 

The regiment, like all others which crossed, went through a daily drill in preparation 


for a submarine attack. After a day out at sea every man and officer was assigned a 
definite place on deck to stand and a certain boat to take in case of attack. These drills 
were repeated twice each day until everyone knew his place and could get to it within 
a minute or so after the gong was sounded. After the danger zone was reached, all 
were required to wear life-preservers at all times. No precaution was neglected and 
nothing left undone by the ship’s commander to make a safe getaway if the boat were 
hit by a torpedo, It might be added that some individuals went even further and did 
not pull off their clothes at all during the last two or three days of the voyage. 

There was only one genuine submarine scare during the whole trip. The convoy 
was fired upon at night, but the torpedo did no damage, and the submarine escaped. 
There was little hesitation, however, thereafter when the gong sounded for boat drill. 
Sick and well turned out with amazing promptitude and made all formations with a 
speed that was never known in camp life. It was with a great sigh of relief that land 
was sighted on the afternoon of June 6, and that everyone set foot on the soil of England 
at Liverpool that night. 

After remaining two days at Liverpool, the regiment entrained for Winchester, where 
it stayed for two days also in a rest camp at Winnall Downs to recuperate from the 
effects of the sea voyage. Most of the men had an opportunity to see a bit of the beautiful 
English country here and to visit the city of Winchester, one of the most interesting towns 
of the British Isles. On the morning of June 11 the regiment, with that part of the 
brigade which was with it, was reviewed by the Duke of Connaught, brother of King 
George. The following morning it entrained again, arriving at Southampton about noon. 


As all boats crossed the English Channel by night on account of the activity of the sub- 
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Camp Coetquidan HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


marines around this part of the coast, it did not go aboard until after dark. All night 
the little steamer plowed and wallowed around in the choppy sea, arriving just before 
daylight on the morning of June 13 in the harbor of Le Havre, France. Again everyone 
sighed with relief when land was reached, for in addition to the danger of submarines to 
fray men’s nerves, the boat-was so packed that there was scarcely room to stand, much 
less to lie down. 

After a day at Le Havre, the journey to Camp Coetquidan began. This was the 
first experience, so often repeated later, of riding in French box cars with their familiar 
label, ‘Hommes 40, Chevaux 8.’’ The inconvenience of this method of travel was more 
than offset by the sensation of really being in France, to which all had been looking 
forward for almost a year. The pretty farms, so carefully kept, the beautiful rolling 
country, the strange, jabbering people, the noisy, grateful welcome that was showered 
on them at every station—these, with the many funny incidents and experiences along 
the way, made the two-day trip to Guer, the detraining point for Camp Coetquidan, a 
short one for everybody. 

Camp Coetquidan, one of several artillery training centers of the American Expedi- 
tionary Forces, was situated in the Department of Morbihan, Brittany, some twenty miles 
south of the city of Rennes, a large town of western France. The camp was built on 
extensive lines, capable of holding two brigades at one time. The artillery of the Third 
Division was completing its training at the time of our arrival, while the artillery of the 
Sixtieth Brigade, Thirty-fifth Division, came in after its departure. In addition to good 
barracks for both men and officers, there were excellent drill grounds, splendid stables, 
and a fine range of several thousand acres for firing. The conveniences of camp life were 
much better than the regiment had had at Sevier. A club and Y. M. C. A. were in 
the heart of the camp, while there were more than a score of cafes and restaurants just 
off the artillery reservation. 

A new life came over the whole regiment immediately on its arrival. Men and 
officers, burnt out by the ceaseless drudgery and routine in the States, went about their 
new work with enthusiastic interest. Salutes became snappy and correct, the sick report 
dropped off to almost nil, discipline and esprit de corps were all that could have been 
wished for. New horses, guns, and other materiel, together with the prospect that he 
would be off to the real fighting in a few weeks, put a serious, genuine interest into every 
man. While the hours were longer and the work more intensive than any during the 
whole training period of almost fifteen months, the weeks at Camp Coetquidan were so 
chocked full of new and practical things that they passed almost without notice. 

Colonel Lea spared neither himself nor his officers nor his men here. With his 
tremendous energy and remarkable ability he led them a dizzy clip. He was usually 
out before reveille, and he did not stop until long after taps. He was rarely ever away 
from camp. Colonel Gleason was equally as diligent in helping to prepare the regiment 
for the work which it was soon to be called upon to do. They led the ambitious and 
drove the laggards. E:ven if anyone wanted to, there was little chance of “‘getting by”’ 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Camp Coetquidan 


with slouchy and careless work. As Longfellow has aptly phrased it, ‘Life was real, 
life was earnest” those days at Camp Coetquidan. No grass grew where the 114th Field 
Artillery was camped. 

A few days after the regiment’s arrival the members of the advance school detach- 
ment returned from Camp Valdahon and rejoined their respective organizations. Up 
until now the commissioned personnel of the regiment had been, for many reasons, more 
or less shifting. From this time forward Colonel Lea worked out among the senior officers 
a stable organization which he maintained throughout the greater part of the period on 
the active front. Major Myers and Major Frierson had command of the First and 
Second Battalions, respectively. Captain Browning was placed in command of Battery 
A; Captain MacPhail, of Battery B; Captain Amis, of Battery C; Captain Long, of 
Battery D; Captain Brown, of Battery E; and Captain Henderson, of Battery F. 
Captain Jackson did splendid work in making the Headquarters Company an effective 
organization, while Captain Chandler did equally as good work with the Supply Company 
until he transferred to Brigade Headquarters as munitions officer, when he was succeeded 
by Lieutenant Cole, who commanded the organization during the greater part of the 
fighting and until it was mustered out of service. Captain Fields served as regimental 
adjutant and operations officer until after the Meuse-Argonne battle, when he was suc- 
ceeded by Captain Evers, Captain Fields taking command of Headquarters Company. 

Colonel Lea worked out and maintained a strenuous daily schedule of artillery drill 
for this period of training. It was so arranged that every hour of the day was filled with 
work for each organization. With four guns, four caissons, and about 150 horses to 
each battery, he had little difficulty in giving each plenty of work to busy itself. 

In the instructors assigned to it the regiment was particularly fortunate. Captain 
Huntingdon, who had had considerable experience at the front as a battery commander 
of the Twenty-sixth Division artillery, taught the officers of the First Battalion, while 
Lieutenant Masselin, of the French army, was assigned to the officers of the Second 
Battalion. Each of them knew artillery thoroughly and each had the ability of imparting 
it well. Lieutenant Masselin, in addition to several years of practical battle experience, 
was the author of the textbook used in preparing artillery candidates for commissions in 
the United States. Both he and Captain Huntingdon were very accommodating and 
evinced a real interest in their work of instruction. All firing was done under their super- 
vision in the mornings, while they gave an hour to lecturing in the afternoon. 

Both men and officers took readily to the 75 mm. gun and the French method of 
artillery firing, which was quite different from that taught in the American schools, The 
French method, in reality, was a refinement on our artillery, which is adapted to open 
field warfare. Four years of trench fighting, or position warfare, as it was familiarly 
called, had caused the French, with the aid of accurate maps of the terrain, to develop 
a highly exact system of firing. With maps, a thorough knowledge of ballistics, and 
correct atmospherical data, they were able to fire with almost as great accuracy upon a 
target without as with direct observation. This would have been impossible under 


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American artillery methods, which are solely dependent upon direct observation. In the 
eleven weeks the regiment was on the front, it was a rare occasion upon which any battery 
commander was able to see the target at which he was shooting. Firing was done almost 
solely by map. Fighting in the sectors in which the regiment was stationed did not 
develop far enough into a warfare of movement to permit use of our American methods. 

Training in the latter, which was received at Camp Sevier, was valuable in more 
ways than one and the time spent on it was by no means lost. Had the war lasted longer, 
it is fairly certain that our American methods would have come in vogue. Ignorance of 
them would have been costly. Furthermore, the knowledge gained from a thorough 
study of them made a splendid foundation for learning the French method, and progress 
in learning the latter was both much easier and faster from knowing open field warfare. 
No regiment could have been prepared for active service in two months without this 
previous training. 

At Camp Sevier the equipment was most meager. Just the reverse was true at Camp 
Coetquidan. Soon after arrival horses, guns, caissons, fourgons, harness, fire control 
instruments and other materiel began to arrive in a steady stream. Practically all of it 
was furnished by the French, with whom General Pershing had made arrangements 
some months previous to provide light and heavy artillery for thirty American divisions. 
As with the French method of firing, it took both officers and men only a short while to 
master thoroughly the use of all this materiel, which was not greatly unlike our own. 
Most of it was very good, though it must be said that the French might learn a great 
deal from Americans about the building of wagons. The latter were very flimsy, carried 
but small loads, and did not have near the capacity that our wagons have. 

Criticism might be directed also at the French horses. The writer knows of no battery 
commander or driver who would like to use them through another war. They were 
always the source of the greatest worry and trouble during the fighting. They lacked 
stamina, endurance and stability. AA common American horse or mule of much smaller 
size would have lasted a great deal longer and given much less annoyance. _ They had 
been raised and cared for like children by the French peasants, and hard usage by 
American drivers, accustomed to mules and mustangs, went hard with them. Those 
issued to the regiment, about 1,000 in number, cost on an average a little above $500 
each, it was reliably reported. Many of them were of the finest draft blood. Some of 
the stallions would have taken ribbons in show rings if they had been exhibited. They 
were of the last conscription made by the French government upon its farmers for use in 
the war and, therefore, belonged to the cream of the French breeding stock. It was a 
pitiful sight in later days to see many of these fine animals, worn and exhausted by the 
strain put upon them, dwindle in flesh and finally become so weak that it was necessary 
to cut them out of the traces and leave them by the wayside. 

To further stimulate interest among the batteries and companies of the regiment, as 
well as to raise them to the highest standard of excellence, Colonel Lea made the weekly 
inspections on Saturday afternoon competitive. These inspections, made by himself, 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Camp Coetquidan 


Colonel Gleason, and Majors Myers and Frierson, included personnel, barracks, kitchens, 
guns and stables. There was a spirited rivalry between all of the organizations for the 
honor of winning these contests, the results of which were published in regimental orders. 
Battery B won one, Battery E one, Headquarters Company one, and Battery C three 
of them. After horses and guns had been received a few weeks, a regimental horse show 
also was held, in which there were three rings—one for the best gun section, a second for 
the best mount in the regiment, and a third for the best kitchen among the eight organi- 
zations. The first ring brought together a magnificent display of horse flesh, as each 
battery picked its best horses to enter in the contest. Battery C captured first honors in 
the mount and gun section rings, while Battery E. was first with the best kitchen. 

In addition to these regimental contests, a brigade competition for the fastest gun 
squads, extending over several weeks, also was held. Problems in setting firing data on 
the guns by the squads were prepared by the brigade instructors and given simultaneously 
to the light regiments, the 113th and 114th Field Artillery. Our regiment won easily 
from its competitor from North Carolina. Within the regiment the prize was the honor 
of departing first for the front and firing the first shot against the Germans. Battery E 
won by a short nose from Battery B, with Battery C third, Battery D fourth, Battery F 
fifth, and Battery A sixth. 

July Fourth was celebrated in the brigade in truly American style. General Gatley, 
the French general commanding the region of Rennes, and a French senator reviewed the 
three artillery regiments and the 105th Ammunition Train. All of the regiments appeared 
to splendid advantage in the very impressive ceremonies. Colonel Lea was the orator of 
the day and spoke to the assembled brigade on the parade ground. Following his address, 
a dinner in honor of the distinguished guests was given at the officers’ club. ‘Two days 
later General Gatley received his orders to leave the brigade and to take command of 
the artillery of the Forty-second Division. He arrived at his new post just in time to 
participate in the Second Battle of the Marne, which began on July 15. He was suc- 
ceeded as commander of the Fifty-fifth Brigade by a former coast artilleryman, who 
had been relieved of duty with an anti-aircraft organization. 

By the early days of August the brigade had progressed so far with its work that it 
was ready for its final big problem in firing, in which all of the regiments were to partici- 
pate. It was made as realistic as possible, a barrage and a large number of concentra- 
tion, harassing and special fires being worked out by the regimental staffs and executed 
by the individual batteries. Command posts were selected and used by the brigade, 
regimental, battalion and battery commanders, with a perfect network of telephone 
communication between them. Thousands of dollars worth of ammunition was fired 
in the problem, which was observed from the various forward command posts. The 
barrage, which covered a front of two light regiments, and which was reinforced by the 
fire of the heavy regiment on strong points in this area, played like a curtain of flame 
upon a hill three kilometers away and seemed to set ablaze a whole forest. 

Just on the eve of the regiment’s departure from Camp Coetquidan came an order 


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from G. H. Q. at Chaumont that a certain number of officers should be detailed as 
instructors for other American regiments in training, both in France and in the United 
States. The order provided that all of those so designated for home duty should receive 
a promotion of one rank upon their arrival. When Colonel Lea presented this inducement 
to all officers, one by one they turned it down, and it became necessary for him to desig- 
nate those who should go. He picked Captain McCormick, Lieutenants Harr, Gaines, 
Lewis, Waterbury, Richards, Bruce, de Rham and others for instructors in the States, 
while Captain Bailey and Lieutenant Gunby were designated to go to Camp de Souge, 
near Bordeaux, to train regiments there. Captain Baxter Jackson was ordered at the 
same time to G. H. Q. for special duty. 

How brilliant was the record of the regiment in its training at Camp Coetquidan may 
be judged by the statements of instructors and inspectors who watched it and saw the 
reports made with regard to it. One instructor stated publicly that it was the best trained 
and most competently officered regiment that had left the camp up until that time. From 
a brigadier-general, attached to the staff of the chief of artillery at Chaumont, and 
entrusted with the rating of artillery training brigades in France, it was learned that the 
Fifty-fifth Brigade was the only American artillery brigade which was rated as ““good,” 
a large number being marked “‘fair,’’ and still more “‘poor.’’ These two statements from 
disinterested observers show emphatically that the 114th Field Artillery was one of the 
very best American regiments which trained in France. 

Departure of the regiment began on the morning of August 20. A special train of 
fifty-one box, flat and passenger cars was provided to carry the officers, men, guns, horses, 
and other equipment of each organization. Half of the regiment went the first day, the 
other half the following day. A clear track and few stops enabled each organization to 
make the trip, which was routed by way of Paris, in a little more than forty hours. There 
were no accidents or misfortunes to mar the journey. Toul was reached on the morning 


of June 22. 


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Neuspickel, Riegler, Mielke, : 

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Shubert, Milligan, Huff, Southworth, Freeman. 

Fifth Row—McCormick, O’Rear, Dent, Stanton, Baker, Blackburn, Gilliam, Smith, Gardner, Browr 
Sharpe, Stricklin. 

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pwis, Matheny, Wood, White, Neal, Tolliver, Wood, Gilley, Eaker, Edens, Worley, McCollum, 
MacPhail, Maher, Johnson, Swing, Nickerson, Leroy, Rhodes, Gilliam, Gross, Hilburn, Myers, 


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Battle of St. Mihiel 


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remainder of the Thirtieth Division in Belgium or North France after its 
training period at Camp Coetquidan was completed. Captain Fields, 
adjutant and operations officer of the regiment, had, under orders, even spent a few days 
there during the latter. part of July and the first days of August in order to make a 
hurried reconnaissance of that sector. 

The switch in plans was necessitated by the decision of General Pershing, after the 
victorious result of the Second Battle of the Mame in July, to form the American First 
Army immediately and prepare for the wiping out of the St. Mihiel salient, which had 
been a thor in the side of the Allied armies for four years. The quick and successful 
execution of this plan demanded that an overpowering array of artillery of all calibers 
should be assembled in order to destroy the German defenses before the attack of the 
infantry began. Consequently, all American artillery that was available, together with 
much that was loaned by the French, was gathered hastily during the month of August 
into the St. Mihiel sector for this first American drive. Included in this assembly of 
artillery were the Fifty-second and Fifty-fifth Brigades of the Twenty-seventh and 
Thirtieth. Divisions. 

Immediately upon detraining at Toul, the eight organizations of the regiment marched 
to the little village of Troussey, some ten kilometers westward, where they were permitted 
to rest two days from‘the train trip. On the night of August 24 they moved again to 
the Sanzey woods, arriving there about two o'clock the following morning, Sunday, 
August 25. Here horse lines were established, “‘pup”’ tents pitched, and a regular camp 
laid out under the concealment afforded by the foliage of the trees. Any tent or piece 
of material that was exposed directly to the sun was covered with limbs and twigs so as 
to prevent observation by German planes. 

There was much nervousness these first days near Sanzey, It was the first time a 
hostile gun was heard or an enemy plane was actually seen. At the first faint whir of 
a motor overheard everyone betook himself post-haste to the cover of the shade. Abso- 
lutely all of the theoretical rules and regulations that had been given in the training camps 
were observed to the letter. Yet all went about it with the air of “‘veterans,”’ for no 
one wanted to appear as an amateur who was getting his first bit of experience on the 
front. No one knew that the nearest point of the German lines was twelve kilometers 
away, and that only long-range artillery could have reached us! Wad this been known, 
much anguish and agony of soul and spirit over gas shells and bombardment might 
have been avoided. 


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No one who was a member of the regiment will ever forget the commotion here which 
the first gas alarm at night stirred up. When some sentry in an adjoining regiment who 
was pacing his post near the stables, and who thought he detected a strange odor, fired 
off his pistol, the cry of ““Gas! Gas!” spread over the whole brigade. Though the cries 
of alarm and the klaxon horns were loud and strident enough to have been heard a mile 
or so away in the still night, those who had pistols convenient grabbed them and laid 
down a perfect barrage on the ether overhead. Every man jumped in the dark for his 
gas mask or what, in his excitement, he thought was his mask. Some got the real article, 
but were so excited that they had difficulty in getting it adjusted. Others brought up 
helmets, blankets, or whatever else was nearest. Some amusing tales were told about 
those who could not find their masks. A certain lieutenant, who could not find his, 
stretched himself out on his bunk, calm and ready to meet the death which he was sure 
awaited him. A private, who had been asleep, was awakened by the cries and thought 
the Germans were attacking, He could not find gas mask, helmet or pistol in the dark. 
Jerking on his trousers, he took his stand barefooted at his tent door, knife drawn and 
teeth set, prepared to murder any German who came near! 

Batteries E and B, which had finished first and second, respectively, in the gun squad 
contest at Camp Coetquidan, were the first organizations to go actively into a firing 
position. On the night of August 27 they moved forward their guns to two positions 
which had been in use by the French for several years. Battery E. was stationed just 
on the left edge of the village of Bernecourt, while Battery B occupied pits a few hundred 
yards west on the Bernecourt-Beaumont road. Batteries C and D moved up the same 
night to positions south of Bernecourt on the Bernecourt-Menil la Tour road. Att the 
same time the regimental command post was established at Minorville, while the head- 
quarters of the First and Second Battalions were located at Ansauville and Grosrouvres, 
respectively. 

With a few variations, as shown on the map, these first two battery positions were 
held until just before the opening of the big drive on the momming of September 12. 
The other two were abandoned. After a battery had been a day or two in position and 
had fired a few rounds into the German lines upon special targets, a relief was made 
during the night and another battery came forward to get a bit of experience. Ass a 
rule, only two batteries were in the line at a time, one from the First Battalion, the other 
from the Second Battalion. This switching and changing of batteries proved valuable, 
for each got considerable practical work in making reliefs and in moving by night. 

About a week before the drive began, reconnaissances were made of the future battle 
positions and working parties were carried forward at night to dig trail pits and shelter 
trenches, prepare ammunition racks and put up camouflage. The hauling of ammunition 
began a night or two later. Each battery’s allotment was about 4,000 rounds of high 
explosive, gas and smoke shells. This amount was far beyond what was actually used 
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much more difficult than it really was. The maximum used by any battery was not over 
2,500 rounds, while the minimum was around 1,500. 

To the strain of moving this much ammunition, together with some hates was hauled 
for the French, must be attributed the loss of many horses later and the weakened condi- 
tion of the remainder. The nights were rainy and cold, while the roads were often deep 
in mud. The horses were hitched up just before dark and all night long, for more than 
a week, they worked in the traces, pulling heavy caissons of ammunition. The conse- 
quence was that when the drive began they were pretty well fagged out and exhausted. 
Two weeks more of this severe work and most of them were either in condition to go to 
a veterinary hospital or to be shot, for they were almost useless. 

The St. Mihiel salient was a deep wedge or pocket driven into the French lines in 
the fall of 1914 in the first German onslaught of the war. The aim of the Hun strate- 
gists was to overrun and capture Verdun, the most powerful of the French fortresses, cut 
the double-track railroad line from Paris to Verdun-Toul-Epinal-Belfort, and thereby 
cut off Eastern France from the rest of the republic. With these main strong points of 
the eastern frontier in their hands, only level country lay between them and Paris from 
its right flank. Their attempt was partly successful, for Verdun was virtually surrounded 
on three sides and the railroad line was pierced for about two kilometers south of St. 
Mihiel, but they failed in the drive on the other three forts when Castelnau threw them 
back before Nancy in August, 1914. 

This salient or pocket, with St. Mihiel at its bottom, remained in spite of heroic 
attempts of the French to eliminate it in 1915. The first attempt was made in February 
of that year against the left side at Les Eparges, The net result was a loss of about 
50,000 men killed by the Germans and French, and the gain of only a small strip of 
ground by the latter. The attack was repeated in the summer of 1915, but the drive 
was made on the right side of the salient at Apremont. Again there was but a small 
gain and at a tremendous loss of men. ‘Thereafter, the St. Mihiel salient lapsed into 
quietude and became largely a rest sector for troops which had been exhausted from 
fighting at more active parts of the battle line. Beyond a few local raids and occasional 
activity by the artillery, there was no pronounced warfare over this front, which measured 
about sixty-five kilometers from Les Eparges, around St. Mihiel to the Moselle River 
above Pont-a-Mousson. 

There were two tactical considerations that persuaded General Pershing to select 
this sector as the first area of distinctive American activity. One was that the elimination 
of the salient meant the reduction of its front from about sixty-five to forty kilometers. 
The other was that if this pocket were wiped out and a straight line established from 
Verdun to the Moselle, then Metz, Conflans, Briey, and Longwy, together with the 
immense coal and ore deposits that lay about these cities, would be within easy reach 
in another American drive. A third reason, perhaps, that influenced General Pershing 
in his decision was that American success in an operation which the French had given up 


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for four years as impossible would have a tremendous effect upon the drooping morale of 
the Allied forces and stir American war sentiment to the boiling point. 

The strategy that he employed in the reduction of the salient was very simple. 
Regarding Les Eparges and Pont-a-Mousson as the hinges of two great doors which 
opened southward toward St. Mihiel, his plan was to swing the doors together and have 
them meet just north of Vigneulles. The divisions on the left side of the pocket were 
to push southeasterly, while those on the right were to drive northwest, forming a junction 
about twenty-four hours after the attack began. The French, who were around the 
bottom of the pocket, were given the task of engaging the German forces against them 
until the two doors had closed, then of capturing the Huns whose avenue of retreat was 
cut off. 

For the attack General Pershing had in the line nine American divisions, totaling 
about 215,000 men, while about 190,000 other troops were in reserve. The French 
furnished him also about 50,000 for the operation. The artillery strength was much 
out of proportion to the infantry, for it was the plan of battle to smother the enemy and 
destroy his defenses before the infantry began its attack. The concentration of artillery, 
according to reliable reports, was the greatest of the war up to that time. American 
batteries alone fired more than 1,000,000 shells of all calibers on the first day. 

The task assigned to our regiment in this great attack was to assist in the support of 
the Ejighty-ninth Division, commanded by Major-General W. M. Wright. Its sector 
was a front of about two and one-half kilometers, extending from Flirey eastward to 
Limey. Upon our right was the famous Second, or “‘Marine” Division, while on the 
left was the celebrated Forty-second, or ““Rainbow’’ Division. In addition to the artillery 
of the Fifty-fifth Brigade, the Eighty-ninth Division also had the support of eighteen 
French 75 mm. batteries, two 155 mm. French batteries, two 220 mm. French batteries, 
and one French trench mortar battery, Exclusive of the latter organization, 160 guns 
were grouped on a front of about one and one-half miles, or an average of one gun 
about every seventeen yards, if they had been placed in line. ‘To those who have seen 
the destructive power of artillery, capably handled and plentifully supplied with ammuni- 
tion, it is not difficult to understand why the enemy “‘withdrew for tactical reasons.” 

For the attack, Battery B was stationed in the village of Flirey, just back of the 
infantry lines; Batteries A and C had their positions behind the crest of the hill south of 
Flirey and about two hundred yards above “‘Gas Hollow’; while Batteries D, E, and 
F were located about one kilometer further back and upon the left edge of the Bois de 
la Voisogne. Battalion commanders had their headquarters near their batteries, while 
regimental headquarters was moved from Minorville to Bernecourt on the evening before 
the attack. 

About three o’clock on the afternoon of September 11 battery commanders were 
summoned to headquarters, told in the greatest secrecy that the attack was to begin at 
one o'clock the following morning, and their missions and maps were assigned them. Not 


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a whisper of the time the drive would start had been given out before this, although the 
town-crier at Minorville, in which headquarters was located, had gone all over the village 
that morning with his drum, beating it with all his might and telling the civilians to get 
out, for the “big show” was going to start the next morning! Back at Toul and at other 
towns in the back areas, as well as at Paris, the time and many of the plans for the drive 
had been known and discussed by outsiders for a week or more! The Germans unques- 
tionably had information of them some time in advance. But “D”’ day and “H” hour 
were unknown to our brigade until a few hours before they were on us. So much for 
army staff “‘red tape” and much-ado-about-little. P 

In a hurry of hauling so much ammunition, fuses for it were almost forgotten. A 
wild scurry to get them forward to the batteries began, and the last of them were not 
delivered until about ten o’clock at night. Lieutenant Hart and non-commissioned officers 
under him did valiant work in bringing them up, through rain and mud, over roads that 
were cut partly through fields. The night was inky, pitch black in its darkness. One’s 
hand could not have been seen six inches from the eyes. A slow, ground-soaking autumn 
rain was falling. ‘The cold was clammy, penetrating, the kind that chills by cutting 
through to the very marrow. 

In spite of the hurry of the eleventh hour preparations, every battery was more than 
ready when the four-hour bombardment, which was ordered, began at one o'clock on 
the morning of September 12. Those last few minutes before its beginning are immem- 
orable, unforgetable in the anxiety they caused and the awe of the great attack that they 
inspired. ‘The first gun to speak was a big one stationed far back in the rear, which lit 
up the jet-black skies with a lurid flash. A moment later another monster hurled a huge 
shell far behind the German lines into the back areas. Slowly other long-range Berthas 
joined in, deep and heavy with a bass roar, while the hundreds of smaller-powered guns 
swelled the whole into one stupendous, majestic chorus. The earth fairly seemed to 
shake with their reverberations, while the darkness was turned almost into the light of 
day. The skies in the rear seemed one vast curtain of flame from the wicked, momentary 
flashes. The whole scene was so awe-inspiring, so tremendous, so far beyond what anyone 
present had witnessed—as Niagara Falls is beyond a tiny creek dam—that all sense of 
fear was lost, swallowed up in the immensity of the moment and the duties that were at 
hand. It was one of those few scenes in life that stand apart from all others and remain 
indelibly stamped upon the mind and memory with an ever-present reality until the 
dying day. 

For four hours two thousand guns of all calibers belched forth death and destruction 
upon the shelters, towns and strong points behind the German lines, making the night a 
veritable inferno for the enemy. At five o’clock sharp every gun ceased firing and an 
unearthly stillness seemed to pervade the earth. ‘Twenty minutes later they again broke 
forth in mighty unison, laying down a rolling barrage in front of our infantry, which 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY St. Mihiel 


jumped out of their trenches and followed it. It lasted for five hours and forty-five 
minutes, advancing at the rate of one hundred yards each four minutes. 

A regimental order, received just before dawn, directed that Batteries A and C 
should cease firing and move forward at 6:30 o'clock through Flirey to accompany the 
infantry of the division in its advance. They pulled out on time, going back down “Gas 
Hollow” and along the main road to the foot of the hill, which is about a kilometer north 
of Flirey. There they were halted by the engineers, who were trying to patch up a 
hasty road across No Man’s Land for the artillery and other transport, and there they 
remained until about four o'clock the same afternoon. The old trenches, built four 
years before and extended during that time into a perfect maze of barbed wire and 
defensive fortifications, forbade all traffic across them for eight hours after the attack 
began. About noon rumors of a German counter-attack filtered back, and these two 
batteries, A and C, were thrown into temporary positions on either side of the road. 
The other four batteries of the regiment, which moved forward about noon, got across 
No Man’s Land somewhat earlier. Major Frierson advanced with his battalion to 
Euzevin, going into position about a kilometer south thereof for the night. Batteries A, 
B, and C went on to Bouillonville, reaching there about two o’clock in the morning. 

The next morning, September 13, found all the regiment somewhat disorganized and 
without proper liaison, a situation that nearly always exists after a great attack and a 
subsequent deep advance. The men seized it to help themselves to the stores of tobacco, 
socks, and other supplies that the Germans left behind at Bouillonville in their haste to 
avoid capture the day before. When the infantry brigade commander received reports 
as to the location of his front line, Battery A was ordered into position just north of 
Bouillonville, Batteries B and C were located on the hill to the left of Thiaucourt, while 
Batteries D, E, and F took positions near Battery A. The Second Battalion did not 
move from them until the brigade was relieved on the night of September 14. Battery A, 
however, was ordered by an infantry regimental commander to send a platoon forward 
into the town of Xammes, right in the front line, where two men were killed on Sep- 
tember 13. The other platoon remained in its original position just above Bouillonville. 

Batteries B and C, which were rather exposed on the top of the hill above Thiau- 
court, remained there, however, during the day of September 13 while reconnaissance 
was made for new and better positions. The following morning they moved forward and 
to the left of the town of Beney, taking up positions on the north edge of the Bois de 
Thiaucourt, from which they began firing. 

During these three days of the attack the question of supplies for the firing batteries 
was a very difficult one. The sole road, which led north from Flirey into the advanced 
sector of the drive, and which afforded the only avenue for the supply trains to get 
forward, was choked with all manner of transport. Heavy artillery, ammunition trains, 
relief troops, and supply trains of every sort and description made one mad rush to get 
forward to support those who had formed the first wave of attack. Another factor that 
contributed to this disarrangement of the regiment’s supplies was the fact that regimental, 


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St. Mihiel HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


battalion and battery commanders had the greater part of their attention concentrated 
necessarily upon the battle that was in progress. The combat trains and large amount 
of equipment that were at the horse lines in the Sanzey woods depended upon junior 
officers and non-commissioned officers for being brought forward. Colonel Gleason, who 
had been in command of the horse lines previous to the attack, had been called to tem- 
porary command of the First Battalion, and there was no senior officer at the rear to 
supervise the bringing forward of the trains. 

The result was that the men of the firing batteries went on pretty short rations for a 
couple of days. However, the American soldier is a very resourceful pillager, and if 
there is anything at ‘all to eat anywhere in his vicinity he is very sure to get his share of 
it. One of the batteries stole into Beney and captured some provisions that had been 
left behind by the Germans. Another battery found a stray cow roaming at large, 
milked her, and then killed her for beef. Other organizations searched the stores and 
shops at Bouillonville and got quite a bit to eat and wear. Still others borrowed from 
their neighbors or begged from passing supply trains. 

The order for the regiment to evacuate the St. Mihiel sector came late in the afternoon 
of September 14, when semblance of order was being restored rapidly out of the chaotic 
condition of affairs. Nearly everyone believed that the regiment was going back to rest 
a few days after its strenuous program of the two weeks preceding. That they were 
going on a long march to take part in another and much larger battle was far from their 
thoughts. No rest for the weary was to be given, for victory, in the opinion of General 
Pershing and other Allied commanders, lay in sight before the coming of winter, if only 
the sledge-hammer blows all along the line, which had begun more than a month previous, 
could be continued. 

Though only three men had been killed in the attack—two in Battery A at Xammes 
and one in Battery D on the morning the drive began—the regiment was far from fit for 
the strenuous program ahead. Men and officers were worn out from loss of sleep and 
work, while the horses were in even worse condition. They had been pretty thoroughly 
exhausted in hauling ammunition before the attack, while a further strain was put upon 
them in the three active days of the drive in being forced to stand for hours in harness 
in traffic jams, with little food or rest. Some had died, while many others were unservice- 
able. All were weak and in no condition to make the trip ahead of them. 

In this drive, which will ever be one of the glorious pages of American military 
history, the regiment won its first laurels. Major-General Wright, commander of the 
Eighty-ninth Division, wrote the following letter of thanks for its services to the com- 


mander: of the Fifty-fifth Artillery Brigade: 


“My Dear General: 

“In accordance with my verbal statement, I want to thank you again for 
the assistance rendered this division during the attack on the St. Mihiel salient 
on September 12. 


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(1) Pitching shelter tents in the Sanzey Woods. (2) General Pershing and Major General Wright, com- 
mander of the 89th Division, which the regiment supported in this drive. (3) German grave with tomb- 
stone and Iron Cross upon it. (4) Thiaucourt under shell fire. (5) Cannoneers cleaning guns after 
march. (6) German heavy guns captured near Beney. (7) German machine gun and dead gunner in 
the St. Mihiel salient. (8) The City of St. Mihiel, liberated by the American Army after four years 
in the hands of the Germans. 


Battery C, 


Top Row—Left to Right: Hurley, McDonald, Murrin, Ray, Myers, Feathers, Davis, Truma’ 
Brogdon, Hancock, Lewis, Green, Mason, Akers, Foust, Wilson, Figley, Ritter. 

Second Row—Jackson, Galyean, Ellis, Drinnen, Bishop, Shelton, Cline, Shook, Watson, Chitty 
Bicknell, Tilley, Proffitt, Charles, Dawn, Goodson. 

Third Row—Monday, Pitt, Heifner, Bolinger, Mundy, Gallina, Caylor, Miller, Grubb, Mai 
Glenn, West, Johnson, Kramer, Gross, Paylor. 

Fourth Row—Williams, Thomson, Kriscunas, Bales, Young, Suiter, Best, Hill, Waterhouse, Q 
Myers, Garrett, Thompson, McCampbell, Hamby. 

Fifth Row—Jackson, Atkin, Baker, Foster, Walker, Sheridan, Shipley, Wetherby, Piper, Tye, 
Monday. 


Field Artillery 


Valker, Helton, Evrard, Lee, Brewer, Gay, Brakebill, Lichlyter, Bellamy, Buck, Butler, Scott, 


ficGhee, Ailor, Wilson, Wright, Proffitt, Byrd, Richards, Smith, Proffitt, Green, Morgan, McGhee, 
Ault, Ramsey, Beasley, Gamble, Fox, Henderlight, Hamby, Barnett, Epps, Collins, Henderson, 
Carson, Lyle, Solomon, Palmer, Piper, Ellis, Bradley, Hodge, Kreuger, Bishop, Copeland, Webb, 


Amis, Gunby, Bass, Hodges, Dempster, Randolph, Bunch, Bradley, Brown, Link, Henley, Howlett, 


THE DEVASTATION OF WAR 


(1) Avocourt, through which the regiment passed in its advance on the opening day of the Meuse- 
Argonne battle. (2) Railroad bridge at Flirey, destroyed by the Germans. (3) No-Man’s Land just 
north of Flirey. (4) German concrete pill box, formerly manned by machine gunners at Lacroix, near 
St. Mihiel. (5) Barbed wire entanglements used for defense. (6) Gun pit of a “75” concealed in 


a forest. 


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“TI have heard nothing but praise from the officers and men of the division 
for the way the artillery was handled and conducted itself, and want to thank 
you for your cheerful and willing compliance with all my wishes. 

“‘Please extend to the men of your command, especially Colonel Lea and his 
regiment, my thanks for the valuable service rendered. 

“Sincerely yours, 
“W. M. WRIGHT, 
“Major-General, U. S. A.” 


This was the only occasion in the service of the brigade that any regiment or any 
organization within it was singled out for special mention and praise. It was a fitting 
tribute to the whole-hearted service that every man and officer of the regiment gave 
ungrudgingly in this stirring period. 

General Pershing also recognized the regiment’s service in the following general order, 


issued on December 26, 1918, to the units engaged in the St. Mihiel drive: 


BGs FeO. 
‘*AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES 
“General Order No. 238 


“Tt is with soldierly pride that I record in general orders a tribute to the 
taking of the St. Mihiel salient by the First Army. 

“On September 12, 1918, you delivered the first concerted offensive opera- 
tion of the American Expeditionary Forces upon difficult terrain against this 
redoubtable position, immovably held for four years, which crumpled before 
your ably executed advance. Within twenty-four hours of the commencement 
of the attack the salient had ceased to exist and you were threatening Metz. 

“Your divisions, which had never been tried in the exacting conditions of 
major offensive operations, worthily emulated those of more arduous experience - 
and earned their right to participate in the more difficult task to come. Your 
staff and auxiliary services, which labored so untiringly and so enthusiastically, 
deserve equal commendation, and we are indebted to the willing co-operation 
of veteran French divisions and of auxiliary units which the Allied commanders 
put at our disposal. 

**Not only did you straighten a dangerous salient, capture 16,000 prisoners 
and 443 guns, and liberate 240 square miles of French territory, but you dem- 
onstrated the fitness for battle of a unified American army. 

“‘We appreciate the loyal training and effort of the First Army. In the 
name of our country, I offer our hearty and unmeasured thanks to these splendid 
Americans of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Corps, and of the First, Second, 
Fourth, Fifth, Twenty-sixth, Forty-second, Ejighty-ninth, and Ninetieth Divi- 


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sions, which were engaged, and of the Third, Thirty-fifth, Seventy-eighth, Eigh- 
tieth, and Ninety-first Divisions, which were in reserve. 
“‘This order will be read to all organizations at the first assembly formation 
after its receipt. 
“JOHN J. PERSHING, 
“General, Commander-in-Chief.” 


“Official : 
“ROBERT C. DAvISs, 
**Adjutant-General.”’ 


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Meuse-Argonne Battle 


Sx\| IE ten-night march from Bouillonville to Brocourt Wood, or, more generally 
speaking, from the St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne sector, was one of the 


ell weeks upon the front. It was a period of great hardships upon both men 
and Hires It was begun with both of them exhausted from their efforts in the drive 
preceding, while it ended with them in much worse condition in which to start a far 
larger attack. 
: All marching was done by night to avoid observation by German planes, for the 

attack was planned to be a surprise and much of its success depended upon the depth of 
the first rush through the enemy’s defenses. By day men and horses got what little rest 
they could in the small towns or in the woods along the route. When night began to fall, 
they resumed their hike, usually reaching the next stopping place about three or four 
o'clock in the morning. The schedule of march was always the same—march fifty 
minutes and then rest the remaining ten minutes of the hour. During these halts men 
slept in their saddles or fell out on the side of the road to snatch a short nap. A good 
many simply laid down in the middle of the road and went to sleep, for their weariness 
was greater than their discomfort. 

A peculiarity was that, although the weather was cold, damp and disagreeable, not 
a single case of pneumonia was reported. With the exception of dysentery, there was 
little disease in the regiment. Another fact that will be somewhat of a shock to the sani- 
tarians was that the lack of soap and warm water mattered little in the matter of health. 
There was hardly a single law of hygiene that was not violated day after day. Many 
men did not bathe for weeks simply because there were not the facilities for doing so. 
Clothing was scarce and much was kept on until it was worn out. 

The order of the Fourth American Corps for the evacuation of the St. Mihiel sector 
directed that the regiment should clear the town of Essey by midnight. The rear had 
hardly passed out before the Germans began to shell it with long-range guns. A few 
minutes later and there would have been many casualties. Just after sunup, Rambucourt, 
the first stop of the march, was reached. Part of the regiment remained there; the 
remainder passed on into Le Faux Bois Nauginsard. The name was very aptly given 
(its meaning in English is the false woods), for it proved little more than a swamp and 
jungle. The following morning, after a march of twelve hours, Pont-sur-Meuse, a village 
near Commercy, was entered. The two previous nights had been so hard and everyone 
was so fatigued that a rest of one day was given here. The hike then continued each 
night—with halts by day at Pierrefitte, Beauzee, and Ippecourt—until the woods near 
Rarecourt were reached about midnight of September 20. An intermission of one day 


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was given here before starting, the night of September 22, for the Bois de Brocourt, 
where the regiment encamped the following morning about daybreak. This last night 
of the march was exceedingly disagreeable, for a cold rain fell most of the time. 

On entering the Argonne sector, the brigade was attached to the Ninety-second Division 
of the First Corps, but on September 22 this order was countermanded and a subsequent 
order issued that the brigade should support the Thirty-seventh Division, Ohio National 
Guard, of the Fifth Corps, in the attack on the morning of September 26. This was 
the center division of the nine American divisions designated by General Pershing to 
open the drive. On the right was the Seventy-ninth Division, on the left the Ninety-first 
Division. Just ahead, and several kilometers behind the German lines, was Montfaucon, 
highest point of this whole region, from which the Crown Prince observed the bloody 
attempt of his troops to capture Verdun in 1916. 

The sector of the army in this greatest of all battles in which American forces ever 
participated extended from the edge of the Argonne Forest at Vienne-le-Chateau, on the 
west, to the Meuse River, on the nght, a front of about thirty kilometers. Before our 
army lay the most formidable part of the entire German line. It bristled with a mass 
of fortified positions—the Hindenburg Line, Hagen Stellung, Volker Stellung, Kriemhilde 
Stellung, and the Freya Stellung. All of these distinct defensive fortifications followed 
a line of heights, which added great natural strength to the intricate system of artificial 
defenses that had been built up in four years to protect this vital point of the whole front. 
Behind these barriers lay the heart of the German transportation and supply system. It 
was General Pershing’s purpose to drive a wedge through them to Sedan and cut the 
four-track railroad line that was the main artery between Germany and her forces 
in France. 

In this gigantic contest, which lasted for forty-seven days, about 750,000 American 
troops were engaged, twenty-two separate divisions took part, and casualties estimated 
at 125,000 were sustained by our army. Against it was pitted the very best of the Hun 
divisions, which, for more than a month, yielded only foot by foot. With splendid artil- 
lery and thousands of machine guns, large and small, they made a courageous and des- 
perate resistance. When they crumbled after November 1, the German high command 
was not long in begging for an armistice in order to save its armies from complete disaster. 

A few hours after reaching the Brocourt Woods, battalion and battery commanders 
were ordered to go forward at once and reconnoiter the sector assigned the regiment, 
which was the north edge of the Foret de Hesse, about one and one-half kilometers 
directly south of Avocourt, the village from which the infantry was to begin its drive. 
Much to their surprise, they found officers and detachments from the Thirty-third Division 
artillery already in the sector assigned us. ‘The latter were preparing gun positions and 
hauling ammunition for their use. When they were informed that our regiment had been 
ordered to take over the sector, and that they had been shifted to the right, they took the 
news with rather bad grace and steadfastly refused to move until a direct corps order 
was issued for them to get out at once. 


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The work they had done and the ammunition they had already hauled—about 6,000 
rounds, according to the writer’s recollection—proved a blessing, for without them it 
would have been an almost impossible task to have been ready by the morning of 
September 26, when the drive began. However, the men from IIlinois were partly repaid, 
for our trucks and caissons hauled some ammunition for them. Nevertheless, several 
hundred more rounds were laid in for each battery of the regiment on the night of 
September 24, giving an allowance of about 2,000 rounds to each for the attack. 

The guns were brought forward the same night and put into position. Since all were 
strung along a front of only about 500 yards, they were brought together in regimental 
column. Just after they passed through the village of Recicourt, the Germans began a 
bombardment, but no one was injured. A train of the 113th Field Artillery, which 
was just behind, caught a part of the shelling and lost both men and horses. “To reach 
the positions assigned it was necessary to cross a small stream over which there was a 
decayed wooden bridge. After two batteries had got over, the sills gave away partially 
and crossing was very slow and difficult. No tools or lumber were convenient to patch 
it. Batteries A, C, D, and F crossed before it gave away, but Batteries B and E were 
forced to conceal their guns nearby and put them in position the following night. As 
daybreak was nearing, the gun limbers and empty caissons of the first four batteries had 
a rough time getting back across the stream. Some drivers headed straight through the 
ice-cold water, which was about waist-deep, and had their teams get down under them 
when the lead pairs tried to jump the stream. Others skidded across the broken bridge 
in some fashion or other. The last teams crossed about five o’clock in the morning and 
got into the woods before day broke. 

In addition to the three regiments and trench mortar battery ‘of the brigade, the 
Thirty-seventh Division also was supported by three French battalions of 75 mm. guns, 
two French battalions of 155 mm. howitzers, one French battalion of 280 mm. rifles, 
and three French trench mortar batteries. All of them were under the orders of the 
commander of the Fifth-fifth Brigade. In addition, there was a powerful concentration 
of corps and army artillery of large calibers just behind the brigade in the Foret de 
Hesse. These fired upon the German back areas and upon strong points like Mont- 
faucon, which were out of the range of the light guns. 

Owing to a change of plans, orders for the attack did not reach regimental head- 
quarters, which had been established on Hermont Hill about half a kilometer back of the 
firing batteries, until an hour or so before midnight on September 25. Missions of the 
individual batteries were quickly assigned by the battalion commanders, and captains got 
back to their temporary quarters to prepare their firing data just as the big guns began 
their bombardment. H hour was 11:30 o’clock, but the light batteries did not begin 
their firing until two and one-half hours later, according to orders. Up until the barrage 
started at 5:30 o'clock, all batteries of the regiment were employed in cutting the thick 
barbed-wire entanglements in front of the infantry. 

As in the St. Mihiel attack, no battery had been allowed to register its guns before 


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the drive started, because the Germans were to be given no inkling of the force against 
them. Consequently, all our firing was done strictly by map and without any observation 
of its effect. Ass in every mission it was called upon to perform, every battery was ready 
and began fire promptly on the minute. Profiting by the experience in the previous drive, 
firm bases or platforms had been built for the guns and there was no interruption in the 
rain of shell by reason of wheels sinking into the mud and preventing the shift of the trail 
spades. Gun squads functioned much more efficiently also, because they had gained 
confidence. They seemed to fairly revel in their work and kept their guns going at top 
speed. ‘There was only one accident, the breech of one of Battery B’s guns blowing 
partly off and knocking out some of the teeth of No. 1. 

With a deafening roar from every gun in the whole sector, the barrage began at 
5:30 o'clock. The noise was appalling and the earth seemed to shake as in an earth- 
quake. The infantry hopped out of their trenches in the gray dawn to the attack to 
find the enemy shaken and bewildered by the tremendous bombardment, but ready and 
prepared, nevertheless, to make bitter resistance with machine guns from concrete dugouts, 
in trees, and behind all kinds of debris. The “doughboys” fought fearlessly, but when 
the end of the day came the regiments of the Thirty-seventh Division, which formed the 
assaulting waves, were pretty well shot to pieces. Much of this was due to lack of 
experience. 

Batteries of the regiment fired up until about the middle of the morming of Septem- 
ber 26. Orders were received for one battalion to accompany the infantry, but just 
after it had hitched up news came back that the Huns had counter-attacked, and the 
whole regiment again went hurriedly into position. After this information was proven 
false, the Second Battalion, under orders from Colonel Lea, went forward about 1 
o'clock through Avocourt and took up positions on the southern edge of the woods north 
thereof. Some firing was done that afternoon by the batteries of this battalion. 

The First Battalion followed across No Man’s Land about the middle of the after- 
noon, but on account of misdirection as to the road to take leading out of Avocourt, it 
did not reach the position assigned it in the Bois de Montfaucon until about midnight. 
It went off the road toward Malancourt, and when it turned on the Montfaucon road a 
shell crater as large as the mouth of a volcano—and it seemed almost as deep—held up 
passage for several hours while a temporary road was being built. The following 
morning, September 27, after a hasty reconnaissance, Batteries A and C again moved 
forward and took positions on the north edge of the Bois de Montfaucon, about five 
kilometers above Avocourt and two kilometers due south of Montfaucon. Battery B, a 
little later in the morning, moved into the edge of the Bois de Chehemin into quarters 
that had been evacuated recently by the Germans. These three batteries fired effectively 
during the day upon the enemy, who were making stubborn resistance to our infantry’s 
advance. Batteries D, E, and F came up the next day and took positions alongside 
Battery B. 

Heavy rains, previous to as well as after the attack, had made the roads leading 


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forward through Avocourt almost quagmires. Ammunition, food, water and other sup- 
plies were greatly delayed in delivery. Trains were caught in traffic jams and often did 
not move more than a few yards in several hours. Trucks and wagons, stalled in the 
deep mud at the head of a column, held up everything behind them. The engineers 
could not build corduroy roads fast enough to satisfy demands. Meanwhile, the infantry 
was suffering severely for the lack of artillery support, which could not be given thoroughly 
for fear of exhausting completely the dwindling supply of ammunition. Finally, Major- 
General Farnsworth, commander of the Thirty-seventh Division, gave an order that the 
ammunition train of the regiment should be allowed the use of the Ninety-first Division 
road leading to the left out of Avocourt. This helped the situation somewhat, though 
it was not until fully three or four days after the drive began that the traffic situation 
behind the line was cleared up sufficiently to permit anything like easy access between 
front and rear, and to allow supplies and ammunition to come forward in quantity. 

While this tie-up existed, Batteries A and C helped the situation somewhat by firing 
two batteries of German guns near them which had been left behind with a large supply 
of ammunition. The guns were wheeled around and some 2,000 rounds fired from them 
at their former owners. Members of Battery C also captured a big 150-horsepower 
Daimler truck, just south of Montfaucon, which had been used to haul or pull anti- 
aircraft guns. It was of much service later on in the Woevre sector. 

On the night of September 29 the First Battalion pushed forward to more advanced 
positions. On account of the awful condition of the roads and the weakness of the 
horses from overwork and lack of food and water, the batteries did not reach their new 
locations until after sunup the next morning. Some organizations were forced to cut out 
a number of their horses and abandon them, while at least one battery pulled in its last 
section with twenty-two horses to each gun and caisson. A and C went into position 
behind a hedge about 500 meters to the left of Ivoiry, while B pushed on to an apple 
orchard the same distance beyond Epinonville. Battery D came forward a day or two 
later from its position on the north edge of the Bois de Chehemin, which was rather 
crowded for a whole battalion. On October 4 it again moved up, taking position south 
of the road near Eclisfontaine. 

Toward the early days of October the front line became stabilized after the first 
push of the attack. The Huns had brought up reinforcements of machine gunners and 
artillery to check the drive, while our infantry, which had advanced about eight kilom- 
eters, was held up by reason of the inability of the artillery to get forward in quantity 
to assist it in its attack. Furthermore, many of the divisions were exhausted from the 
fierce fighting of the first two or three days. The consequence was that some of them 
were relieved by fresher units, which took up the burden of driving the enemy from his 
new stand. Among those which were sent back to rest was the Thirty-seventh Division. 
Its place was taken October | by the Thirty-second Division, composed of the Michigan 
and Wisconsin National Guard troops. It was a splendid fighting machine which had 


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FAMILIAR SCENES ON THE FRONT 


(1) One of the “heavies” which bombarded the German back areas in the St. Mihiel battle. (2) Engi- 
neers making a road through Avocourt. (3) Cross-roads at St. Remy, showing the route up the hill 
past regimental headquarters to the horse lines. (4) Church at Ivoiry in the Argonne. (5) Section of 
a German 42-centimeter gun, abandoned by the Germans at Spincourt. (6) Graves of men of the 
33d Division killed on November 1] and buried at Hannonville. (7) Men ofi the regiment bathing 
their feet in the Meuse at Pont-sur-Meuse. (8) Room in Crown Prince's observatory at Montfaucon. 


Battery D, 


Top Row—Left to Right: Adams, Galloway, Gibson, Guthrie, Cox, Callis, Goeke, Wynn, Mel 
Long, Boring, Bomar, Livingston, Kirk, Gosney, Baker, Walters. 

Second Row—Herndon, Pierce, Herring, Merritt, Acuff, Elliott, Haynes, Wisnauski, Sills, Rhode 
Hickman, Futrell, Guill, Burrow, Williams. 

Third Row—Sawyers,’ Hatley, Sills, James, Aldred, Moody, Presson, Hicks, Vermallen, Bucy, © 
Farmer, Davis, Pflueger, Spellings, Johnson, Hargis, Blackwood, Smith, Hurst. 

Fourth Row—Nanney, Winters, Claxton, Presson, Browning, Whitaker, Gaddy, Chipman, Micha 
Campbell, Boyce, Wheatley Curran. 

Fifth Row—Norris, Donahue, Layne, Harrison, Loving, Wilson, Hamer, Burney, Bruce, Short, Ist! 
baugh, Owen, Ryan, Stewart. 

Sixth Row—Richardson, Gaylor, Atchison, Pierce, Holland, Lewis, Oliver, Tharpe, Savell, Rose, . 

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s, Cooper, McClurg, Campbell, Hoppers, Marrs, Jordan, Sharp, Churchwell, Bowden, Hamer, 


Marchbanks, Kirk, Smith, Stuart, Pryor, Jenkins, Smith, Hurt, Crow, Jones, Holland, Palmer, 


apt., Kelly, 2d Lt., Carpenter, Moran, Brigance, Davidson, Davidson, Thomas, Langford, Deffen- 


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seen hard service and had much experience in the Second Battle of the Marne in July 
and August. 

The attack was resumed all along the new line on the moming of October 4. It 
was preceded by a heavy artillery preparation by all guns in the Argonne sector. A 
thick barrage was laid down upon the enemy in front of us by our regiment. Both 
woods and open country were shelled, while Cierges, Gesnes, and Romagne also came 
under its fire. These villages, as well as Cunel, Hill 240, and woods in which the 
Germans were known to be, were showered with lead day and night as long as the 
regiment was in the line here. Shells brought up by an ammunition train, because our 
horses were largely unserviceable now, permitted a very liberal firing schedule these last 
few days. While the First Battalion was in its advanced position here, Major Myers 
received orders to report to the School of the Line at Langres, France, and he was 
succeeded in command by Colonel Gleason. 

Five men were killed in this sector, while a sixth, who never returned to his organi- 
zation, was presumed to have lost his life. On October 5 one of Battery F’s guns 
exploded with a shell in its breech, and Corporal Charles G. Collins and Private James 
D. Anderson were killed instantly. That the whole gun squad was not wiped out by 
fragments seemed a miracle. Two days earlier Corporal William F. Ramsey and 
Private John Springer, of Battery B, lost their lives in a barrage which fell upon the 
members of this organization. Private Moreland, who was with them, was never heard 
of afterward. Private Joe R. Ward, of Battery A, was wounded October 4 by splinters 
from an airplane bomb dropped near him as he was lying in a trench by the side of his 
gun’s trail spade. He died in the hospital November 29 from his injuries. 

Previous to the attack on October 4, the commander of the brigade was relieved of 
duty by Brigadier-General Albert S. Fleming, who also retained command of his 
organization, the 158th Field Artillery Brigade. He was a good artilleryman, and he 
obtained splendid results in the four or five days our brigade was under him. Orders, 
which had been expected for a day or two previous, were received on the afternoon of 
October 6, directing that the brigade be relieved and to proceed that night to the Bois 
de Recicourt for further orders. 

With such horses as were left, the slow march began after dark. When one team 
could not drag a wagon or gun up a hill, the horses in the section behind were unhitched 
and doubled to the carriage ahead. Though the distance back to the Bois de Recicourt 
was only about fifteen kilometers, all elements of the regiment did not arrive there until 
about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of October 7. The night was spent there, and the 
following day the most unserviceable horses were turned in to a mobile veterinary hospital. 
Trucks were secured to haul the guns to the Woevre sector, which had been designated 
as the part of the line which the regiment and brigade would next enter. Enough horses 
were left to draw the caissons and the combat trains. 


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General Pershing has recorded in army orders the following tribute to the men who 
took part in the Meuse-Argonne battle: 


G. H. Q. 
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES 


France, December 19, 1918 
General Orders No. 232. 

It is with a sense of gratitude for its splendid accomplishment, which will live through 
all history, that I record in General Orders a tribute to the victory of the First Army in 
the Meuse-Argonne battle. 

Tested and strengthened by the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient, for more than 
six weeks you battered against the pivot of the enemy line on the western front. It was 
a position of imposing natural strength, stretching on both sides of the Meuse River from 
the bitterly contested hills of Verdun to the almost impenetrable forest of the Argonne; 
a position, moreover, fortified by four years of labor designed to render it impregnable; 
a position held with the fullest resources of the enemy. That position you broke utterly, 
and thereby hastened the collapse of the enemy’s military power. 

Soldiers of all divisions engaged under the First, Third and Fifth Corps—the First, 
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, 
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-seventh, Forty-second, Seventy-seventh, 
Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Ejightieth, Eighty-second, Eighty-ninth, Ninetieth, and 
Ninety-first—you will be long remembered for the stubborn persistence of your progress, 
your storming of obstinately defended machine gun nests, your penetration, yard by yard, 
of woods and ravines, your heroic resistance in the face of counter-attacks supported by 
powerful artillery fire. For more than a month after the initial attack of September 26 
you fought your way slowly through the Argonne, through the woods and over the hills 
of the Meuse; you slowly enlarged your hold on the Cotes de Meuse to the east; and 
then, on November 1, your attack forced the enemy into flight. Pressing his retreat, 
you cleared the entire left bank of the Meuse south of Sedan, and then stormed the 
heights on the right bank and drove him into the plain beyond. 

Your achievement, which is scarcely to be equaled in American history, must remain 
a source of proud satisfaction to the troops who participated in the last campaign of the 
war. The American people will remember it as the realization of the hitherto potential 
strength of the American contribution towards the cause to which they had swom alle- 
giance. There can be no greater reward for a soldier or a soldier's memory. 

This order will be read to all organizations at the first assembly formation after 
its receipt. 

JoHN J. PERSHING, 
General, Commander-in-Chief, 
American Expeditionary Forces, 
Official: Ropert C. Davis, Adjutant-General. 


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The Woevre Sector 


IITH the transportation problem partly solved by the use of trucks in hauling 
| the guns, the regiment made the hike from the Argonne to the Troyon, or 
Woevre Plain, sector in very good order. All organizations, of course, 
: were far short of the number of horses needed, but there were enough to 
pull the regiment’s transport. Starting from the Bois de Recicourt on the afternoon of 
October 8, Baldincourt was reached the first night out. Instead of waiting until the 
following night to resume the march, as had been the custom during the period so far on 
the front, the regiment hiked out early the next morning and, after a hard all-day march, 
reached Woimbey, a village just beyond Troyon, that night. 

The brigade, which was now under the command of Brigadier-General John W. 
Kilbreth, Jr., former director of the School of Fire at Fort Sill, and an excellent artillery- 
man, was ordered to this sector with the primary purpose of receiving a short rest and 
being re-equipped, possibly with the expectation of being called again into the drive in 
the Argonne Forest. ‘This part of the line, which was only a few kilometers southeast 
of Verdun and not much farther from St. Mihiel, was regarded as a quiet or rest sector. 

With the exception of its southern end, the line had remained much the same since 
1915, when the French made a bloody and desperate effort to drive the Germans out 
of the St. Mihiel salient by a great mass attack at Les Eparges. The huge mine craters 
near there and the hills east of St. Remy, pock-marked by artillery fire, bore silent witness 
to the violence and desperation of this attack. In the elimination of the salient by the 
American army in the drive beginning September 12, the German positions on the south 
end of the line were captured and the enemy forced off the ridges and high ground down 
into the Woevre Plain. Our artillery held these places of advantage, while such a 
complete scheme of defensive fires, numbering between forty and fifty, had been worked 
out, covering every avenue of possible attack by the enemy, that it would have been an 
almost impossible task for him to have regained these heights. 

Holding the line on our arrival was the infantry of the Seventy-ninth Division, com- 
posed of draft men from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Their 
front lines were down in the plain, about a kilometer or so from the foot of the heights 
above. In support of them was the artillery of the Twenty-sixth (New England) Divi- 
sion, which had been among the first divisions to go overseas. One platoon from each 
battery of the regiment was taken forward on the night of October 9 to relieve one platoon 
of the corresponding battery of the 102nd Field Artillery. The following night the relief 
was completed by bringing forward the remaining platoons. Horses and men of the bat- 
teries going out did this work for us, carrying back their own guns to their echelon. All 
maps, plans, schedules of fire, and other data in regard to the defense of the sector also 


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were turned over, and on the following day, October 11, the command formally passed 
from one regiment to the other. 

Battery A’s position was back of the crest on the road between Les Eparges and 
Tresauvaux; Battery B, whose first platoon was gassed on the night it relieved a platoon 
of the same battery of the 102nd Field Artillery in the village of Tresauvaux, moved 
into the foothills back of Les Eparges; Battery C was stationed on a shoulder of Hill 
372, the highest point of the line for many kilometers in either direction; Battery D took 
position near the road from St. Remy to Combres; Battery E was located right in the 
town of Les Eparges; while Battery F had its guns in a hollow to the right of the Les 
Eparges-Tresauvaux road. Regimental headquarters was set up in former German dug- 
outs south of St. Remy. First Battalion headquarters was just across the road from 
Battery A, while Major Frierson located his command post near Battery D. The 
horse lines were at the intersection of the Grande Tranchee and the Vaux-St. Remy road. 

After our arrival in this sector the Germans seemed to become nervous and fearful 
of an attack. Their artillery became very active. They appeared to have a thorough 
knowledge of our positions, which they peppered at intervals with both gas and high 
explosive shells. On the night of October 9, the gun squads of Battery B, which went 
forward with the first platoon into Tresauvaux, received a heavy dose of gas. Nearly 
all of them, including Lieutenant Monaghan, who was in charge, were forced to go to 
the hospital. A lieutenant of the 102nd Field Artillery was killed in the shelling and 
several of his men were wounded or gassed. A few nights later Battery E was treated 
to a gas bombardment in Les Eparges. One man was killed by a direct hit, another 
was so badly wounded that he died the next day, and several members of the gun squads 
were sent to the hospital for treatment for gas. Battery B lost a man from shell fire on 
October 28, while Battery A had one killed on November 5 from the same cause. Quite 
a number of men were injured during the month of warfare in this sector. 

As a result of this constant shelling there were several shifts of battery positions. 
Battery A was moved across the road from its original position to a point above First 
Battalion headquarters, but after a week there moved back. Battery E, after its bom- 
bardment in Les Eparges, shifted to the edge of the woods on the south side of the 
St. Remy-Dommartin road. Battery D took a position near here, also, toward the latter 
part of October. Battery C, in spite of two bombardments of several hours each, 
remained in its original position, which had fine shelter, because a better place was not 
available. Batteries B and F, which also were shelled heavily, stuck to their locations. 
That the damage done to all the batteries was no greater was due to the fact that much 
of the German ammunition was defective. At times fully fifty per cent of their shells 
were ‘‘duds,’’ which did not explode at all. 

Most of the shelling was toward dark, when ammunition or supplies were being 
brought up to the battery positions. Towns and roads were shelled almost nightly and 
with great accuracy. Men on these details from the regimental echelon were always in 
danger. Rain and mud made their work doubly wearisome. ‘They had the hardest and 


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most dangerous work of any men in the regiment, with the possible exception of the 
telephone linemen, who were called out at all hours to repair wires which had been shot 
to pieces or cut in two. 

The Seventy-ninth Division was relieved on October 23 by the Thirty-third Division, 
made up of national guardsmen from Illinois. At the request of the commander of the 
Seventy-ninth Division, who was much impressed with the artillery support that had been 
given his men, the brigade was ordered to accompany them to its new position on the left 
of Verdun. On account of the lack of horses and sufficient equipment, however, the 
order was countermanded and the brigade allowed to remain in the Woevre sector. 
About a week later, when the 135th and 136th Field Artillery Regiments moved in, 
the front of the divisional artillery was extended to include about twelve kilometers. To 
cover this effectively against attack, a new grouping of the artillery was made by order 
of General Kilbreth. The north group, composed of the 114th Field Artillery and 
the First Battalion of the 113th Field Artillery, was placed under command of Colonel 
Lea, and supported the Sixty-fifth Infantry Brigade of the Thirty-third Division; the 
south group, under Colonel D. J. Hard, comprising the 135th Field Artillery and the 
Second Battalion of the 113th Field Artillery, supported the Sixty-sixth Infantry Brigade 
of the same division; while the third group, commanded by Colonel Harry S. Berry, and 
composed of the 115th Field Artillery and the First and Third Battalions of the 136th 
Field Artillery, supported the entire sector with 155 mm. howitzers. 

With this rearrangement of the divisional artillery, several raids were carried out by 
the infantry during the ten days in November before the armistice was signed. A great 
offensive by the American Second Army had been planned in the direction of Conflans, 
its purpose being to assist in the outflanking and subsequent capture of Metz. Informa- 
tion was needed as to the German plans. It was not known whether the enemy would 
withdraw or whether he would stand his ground rather than retreat into the protection 
of the Metz guns. The raids were arranged for the purpose of capturing prisoners and 
getting this information. 

The first of these raids was carried out against the Chateau D’Aulnois on November 
7 by the Sixty-fifth Infantry Brigade, supported by the Lea group of artillery, plus four 
batteries of the 115th Field Artillery. To protect the infantry, the chateau was given a 
preliminary bombardment, followed by bex and rolling barrages. A smoke screen and 
covering five gave them further support and protection, while corps artillery afforded inter- 
diction and neutralization fire. The raid was very successful and much information was 
obtained from prisoners. 

The largest and by far the most successful of these raids, however, was that made 
against Marcheville on the morning of November 10. This village, which was the key 
to German positions in this sector, was well fortified and had a garrison of a whole 
battalion. The artillery program, arranged by Colonel Lea, consisted of a box barrage, 
rolling barrage, and neutralization fire furnished by the corps artillery. In addition to 
his own regiment, he had command of five batteries of the 113th Field Artillery and 


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four batteries of the 115th Field Artillery. He was given an allowance of several 
thousand rounds of ammunition for the attack, which was made by the Sixty-fifth Infantry 
Brigade. The raid was a complete success, thanks to the precision of the artillery fire, 
which not only killed many of the Germans, but prevented the rescue of their comrades 
in the village. Those who went with the regiment into Luxemburg about a month later 
remember the circle of fresh shell holes which surrounded the town, and which demon- 
strated the accuracy of our artillery fire. 

General King, commander of the Sixty-fifth Infantry Brigade, in a note to General 
Kilbreth gave this testimony to the effectiveness of our fire during the raid: 


“*Just learned today that the barrage which your people put down in front 
of Marcheville during the 10th of November, when the Boche counter-attacked, 
had a wonderful effect. One officer told me that he saw two machine guns 
knocked to pieces, and other officers and men say that the effect on the Boche 
was splendid.” 


The Seventeenth French Corps, under which the brigade functioned during the latter 
part of its period in this sector, recorded the result of the attack in the following bulletin: 


“‘The capture of Marcheville and of the Harville Wood places in our hands 
two important elements of the principal line of resistance of the enemy (Pinthe- 
ville, Riaville, Marcheville, Harville, and Harville Wood). Each of these two 
points was held by one battalion. 

“In provision for our attack, the enemy had reinforced the zone of protection 
by means of some of the troops forming the reserve of the regiment. 

“Owing to the precision of the American artillery fire, it was impossible for 
most of the enemy to make use of their arms in good time. Several groups were 
overpowered in their shelters. The whole garrison of Marcheville has been killed 
or captured (93 prisoners, including six officers).”” 


Formal acknowledgment of the artillery’s support in this and other attacks made 
by the infantry was made after the armistice by General King, commander of the Sixty- 
fifth Brigade, in a letter to General Kilbreth. He said: 


“*1. Now that active operations in this sector are temporarily suspended, I 
desire to express to you, on behalf of myself and the officers and enlisted men 
of the Sixty-fifth Infantry Brigade, appreciation of your most cheerful and effec- 
tive co-operation in all the work which you carried out while in this sub-sector. 

“2. Everyone of your command has responded prompily to all demands, 
and all our people developed the utmost confidence in your ability. 


“EDWARD L. KING, 
Brigadier-General, U. S. A.” 


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The attack of the American Second Army, ordered by Lieutenant-General Bullard 
for the morning of November 11, was to cover a front of several kilometers held by 
more than a half dozen divisions. It was to be carried on simultaneously with the new 
drive of the American First Army east of the Meuse River. The goal of the combined 
attack was the coal and iron belt around Conflans, Briey, and Longwy, the capture of 
which would have been fatal to the German cause, even if the armistice were not 
concluded. 

In anticipation of the attack, reconnaissance in the Woevre Plain for battery positions 
had been made a day or two in advance by the acting battalion commanders, Captains 
MacPhail and Henderson, senior captains on duty with their respective battalions. 
Accordingly, all batteries of the regiment moved forward to these new positions on the 
night of November 10. No preparation had been made in the way of shelter from 
shells, for the plan of attack was that a quick bombardment should be made and a rapid 
advance should follow. There was no concealment from aerial observation. Batteries 
A, B, and C were grouped on either side of the road about 200 meters south of Fresnes 
—the first two on the right, the latter on the left. The only protection afforded them 
from fire was a slight railroad embankment. Batteries D and E took up their positions 
on the road about midway between Combres and Saulx, while Battery F was located 
on the outskirts of the former village. What a slaughter there would have been had the 
attack continued all during the day of November 11, and with a cloudless sky overhead! 
It would have been a woeful day for at least one regiment upon the front. 

During ‘the occupation of these positions, which took the greater part of the night 
and up until about 4 o'clock in the morning, the Germans were busy with their artillery. 
Due to the roads being crowded with infantry and machine gun transport, which was 
also moving forward for the attack, progress in getting the guns in and the caissons 
unloaded was slow and fraught with considerable danger. Att one time during the night 
passage on the Fresnes road was completely blocked and not a wheel could be moved. 
Two hundred yards more of range by the German artillery would have wiped out the 
greater part of the First Battalion in a few minutes. 

In spite of the fact that Marshal Foch’s message that all fighting would cease at 11 
o’clock was known as early as 5 o'clock that morning, the order for the infantry attack 
was not countermanded, although brigade and division commanders protested and did 
their best to have it annulled. The result was that the infantry of the Thirty-third 
Division, at least, made its attack at 6:30 o’clock across an open plain, without any 
artillery preparation, into the muzzles of hundreds of German machine guns. On a 
front of about four kilometers some eighty men lost their lives and many more were 
wounded, when peace was assured within a few hours! ‘The graves of the dead, with 
little wooden crosses to mark their resting places, were seen later at Hannonville—-silent 
reminders of the cruel judgment of someone of the high command! 

Orders for the artillery to cease firing were received at 7:30 o'clock. The fact was 
only a few shots had been fired in the whole regiment. Each battery had only about 400 


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(1) Les Eparges in the Woevre sector. (2) Gun squad of Battery E firing at Camp Coetquidan. (3) 
Gun squad of Battery C on Hill 372 in the Woevre sector. (4) Hole dug by a 155-shell in front of 
one of the regiment's batteries. (5) “Von Hindenburg,” German truck captured by Battery C, near 
Montfaucon. (6) Squad serving gun under cover of camouflage. (7) An artillery section on the march 
to Luxemburg. 


Battery E, 1] 


Top Row—Left to Right: Brooker, Smart, Waggoner, Bailey, Smothers, Wileman, Crocker, | 
Binkley, Randolph, Mitchell, Beasley, Smart, Copeland, Curley, Ferguson, Griggs, Kernell. 

Second Row—Moran, Helvy, Springer, Nolan, Williams, Goodrich, Taylor, Lampkin, Burton, 
Smith, Kimbro, Henderson, Gilbert, Gilbert, Nichols. 

Third Row—McClanahan, Estes, Smith, Griggs, King, Wall, Watson, Winter, Brannon, West, 
Oeser, Brown. 

Fourth Row—Reeves, Mellott, Benedict, McGinnis, Faquin, Bess, Georgantis, Griffin, Fly, Bennet! 
Burrus, Litchford. 

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rphy, Earl, Burrus, Frank, Reynolds, Wright, Jones, Jones, Schulman, High, Hannah, Buck, 
Pepe, Bolling, Picton, Newsom, Bowman, Lamb, Stuckey, Luton, Langford, Hailey, Jones, 


days, Farrell, Anderson, Olofson, Johns, Gourley, Nelson, Oakley, Jones, Washington, Davis. 


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rounds of ammunition, little better than enough to last an hour for a barrage. Angered 
by the infantry attack, the Germans fired up until 11 o'clock. Batteries A, B, and F 
got the brunt of it. Captains MacPhail and Browning, together with two or three other 
officers, barely missed being killed, while one or two men in Battery F were wounded 
in the last few minutes of fighting. 

With the stroke of 11 o'clock, all firing on both sides ceased. The sensation to 
everyone was a novel one, and it took some little time to become accustomed to walking 
around in broad daylight in view of the enemy without some qualms of fear. Though 
everyone felt that the conclusion of the armistice meant, in effect, the close of the war, 
yet there was no shouting or cheering, no demonstration of any kind. Men and officers 
went quietly about their work or souvenir hunting. In fact, now that the fighting was 
over, everyone felt the privilege was given of getting all the war trophies that could be 
had. Before noon men were over the lines and fraternizing with the late foe, swapping 
bread or cigarettes for pistols, helmets, iron crosses, buttons, or anything else that belonged 
to the Germans. The latter were quite friendly on the whole, though some of the officers 
showed surliness. “Those who crossed the German lines had the privilege also of seeing 
the defenses that had been built up against the attack. A mass of machine guns, care- 
fully concealed and strung eastward from the Chateau d’Aulnois, which had mowed 
down the infantry earlier in the morning, made this part of the line almost impregnable 
except after a heavy bombardment. They demonstrated thoroughly that our infantry 
attack had been pure suicide. 

Within the next two or three days, guns, caissons, ammunition, and all personal 
effects which had been stored at the battery positions before moving down into the plain 
on the night of November 10, were moved back to the horse lines at the crossing of the 
Vaux-St. Remy road and the Grande Tranchee. There rumors reached the regiment 
almost daily that the brigade had been designated as one of the few artillery brigades 
to move forward into Germany with the Army of Occupation. Horses, harness, and all 
transport were put in the best condition possible, while about seventy-five horses were 
issued to each organization to make it again mobile. 

These rumors soon died out, and everyone settled down in the mud to make the best 
of ‘it until orders did come to move. No drill of any kind was possible, but employment 
was found for men, who were not working with horses, through an order that an area 
about six kilometers square should be cleaned of all salvage. Every particle of usable 
material was gathered up and hauled to the railhead near the cross roads for transporta- 
tion to the rear. While the members of the band were on a detail of this kind on the 
afternoon of November 18, two of its members, Avery Hinckley and Wilfred St. 
Germain, were killed by the explosion of a shell which was just beneath the surface of 
the ground. 

After the salvaging work was completed, attention was turned to making more 
comfortable quarters, for it had begun to appear that the regiment was to be encamped 
here indefinitely. An engineer detachment furnished timber and sheeting to make rough 


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barracks and to patch the quarters that many of the men had thrown together hastily 
when they came into this sector. This work was little more than completed when the 
order was received that the brigade would accompany the Thirty-third Division to take 
over a part of the American bridgehead on the Rhine. Guns and caissons were then 
hastily painted, horses sheared up, and harness washed and oiled for the trip. As near 
as was humanly possible, considering the shortage of materials with which to work, 
everything was put in spick-and-span condition. 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY — Luxemburg, Le Mans, and Home 


Luxemburg, Le Mans, and Home 


ITH guidons flying and in the best condition it had been since leaving Camp 
Coetquidan, the regiment set out on the morning of December 7 for 
Germany. ‘To make as impressive appearance as possible on the road, 

s | all firing batteries were grouped together, marching at a distance of 100 

aids apart, while the combat trains followed in the rear in the same order in which the 

batteries appeared at the front. The First Battalion led the march to the Moselle River, 
while the Second Battalion was at the head of the regiment on the retum trip. Batteries 

marched according to the rank of the captains in the battalions, this being C, A, and B 

in the First Battalion, and E, F, and D in the Second Battalion. 

Colonel Lea was very rigorous in his requirement of absolute uniformity in every 
respect throughout the regiment. Every man and officer was required to observe this 
rule, not only regarding personal dress and equipment, but also as to horses, harness, 
and materiel. Regimental orders specifically named every detail, even to the side on 
which the buckles of the helmets should be worn, the side on which the halter tie ropes 
were to be tied, the number of cannoneers who should walk behind each carriage, the 
way in which the camouflage should be tied on the guns, and the exact order in which 
the carriages of the combat train should march in the train. Stretching over a distance 
of two miles or more, the regiment made a beautiful sight as it wended its way along 
the fine roads of Luxemburg. Separation of the firing batteries and combat trains, 


however, made an extremely cumbersome and annoying arrangement when the march 
was so long that it was necessary to serve dinner to the batteries on the road. 

The first day of the hike, which was by way of Dommartin, Hannonville, Marche- 
ville and Harville to Boncourt, was the hardest and longest of the trip. Part of it was 
across the last ridge above the Woevre Plain, while after level ground was reached, the 
roads were out of repair from constant shelling in the months before. 

A rest of one day to recuperate from the effect of the trip was given at Boncourt, 
and most of the regiment had the opportunity of visiting Conflans, which was nearby, 
and seeing the devastation that had been done by shelling and airplane bombs. Some 
few had the privilege of a trip to Metz, the capital of Lorraine. The march was resumed 
on the morning of December 9, and continued daily until December 12, night halts being 
made at Bouligny, Arrancy, Longwy, and Leudelange. A rest of one day was given 
at the latter town, the first in Luxemburg in which the regiment billeted. Schutterange 
was reached on December 14, and Ehnen, a village on the Moselle River, about noon 
of December 15. 

The regiment, along with the brigade, had passed into the Seventh Corps, American 
Third Army, upon December 12. However, just as the German border was reached, 


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announcement was made that the American bridgehead on the Rhine had been narrowed 
by the French taking over a part of the zone of occupation, and therefore that no more 
divisions would be needed at the time to hold that part which had been assigned the 
American army. Consequently, the brigade, together with the Thirty-third Division, to 
which it was attached, passed back into the American Second Army, Sixth Corps, on 
December 17, and was designated to occupy the section around Mersch, in the Duchy 
of Luxemburg, until further orders were received. Before the regiment turned back, 
however, on the morning of December 17, Battery C, the foremost element, which was 
billeted at Wormeldange, a bridgehead on the Moselle, drove over on the German side 
in order to claim the distinction of being the only unit of the Thirtieth Division which 
set foot upon German soil. Though Luxemburg was a delightful place in which to 
spend the time, it was a disappointment to all the regiment that it could not continue the 
march to Coblenz and form a part of the Army of Occupation. 

The Mersch area was reached in three days of marching, stops being made by night 
at Schutterange and Moesdorf. Regimental headquarters was established at Tuntingen, 
in which were also encamped Batteries E. and F and the Headquarters Company. First 
Battalion headquarters and Batteries A, B, and C were billeted about two kilometers 
away in Saeul; while Second Battalion headquarters, Battery D and the Supply Company 
were in the village of Brouch. During this period in Luxemburg, and until the regiment 
returned to Boucq to entrain for Le Mans, France, Colonel Gleason, who had been 
in command of the First Battalion on the trip north, served as commander of the 115th 
Field Artillery, with which he did splendid work in its reorganization. Lieutenant- 
Colonel Bacon, of the 115th, who was transferred to the 114th in his place by General 
Spaulding, the new brigade commander, served as head of the First Battalion until the 
return of Major Myers on January 8 from Langres, France, where he had been a 
student at the School of the Line since early in October. 

The men and officers of the regiment were more comfortably quartered in these 
three villages in the Mersch area than they had been in many months. The Luxem- 
burgers, quite a few of whom spoke English, were very kind and friendly in their attitude. 
They were a thrifty, frugal people, courteous in the extreme, and very tolerant of having 
so many soldiers and horses quartered on them. Their little country, the most beautiful 
in scenery and the most highly developed in cultivation in all Europe, is a delight to the 
eye. Even in the dead of winter its charm and enchantment manifested itself on every 
side. The perfectly tilled fields, the magnificently built roads, the quaint little villages, 
the splendid old castles dotted here and there—these and many other features made 
Luxemburg a very attractive country. Qn account of the people being virtually stripped 
of food by the Germans, prices were very high. Eggs for Christmas dinner cost fourteen 
francs a dozen, or about twenty cents each, while a Belgian hare cost thirty-five francs, 
approximately six dollars. Schnapps, a liquor made from the distilled juice of fruits 
and as powerful as raw corn whiskey, was plentiful. No account of either French or 
Luxemburg farm life would be complete without mention of the ever-present pile of 


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manure that adorned the front of every house where an animal of any kind was owned. 
The wealth of the farmer could always be estimated very accurately by its size. 

It was during the stay in Luxemburg that Colonel Lea and a party composed of 
Captain Henderson, Captain MacPhail, Lieutenant Elsworth Brown, Sergeants Dan 
Reilly, Owen Johnson, Eustace Hail, and Corporal Marmaduke Clokey made their 
celebrated trip to Amerongen, Holland, to interview the former German Kaiser—an 
episode that became the gossip of two continents and came near ending disastrously. 
Led by Colonel Lea, who had obtained the permission of General Spalding for the trip, 
the party toured northern France, visited the ruined cities of Belgium, secured passports 
at Brussels from Queen Wilhelmina, through the courtesy of Brand Whitlock, the 
American ambassador, to enter Holland, and drove then to Amerongen, where the 
former emperor was quartered at the castle of Count Bentick. "They were admitted to 
the castle by the count, but when the request for an interview was laid before the former 
monarch, he declined to see the party unless it presented credentials as direct representa- 
tives of the American government. While these conversations were taking place, the 
count had secretly sent out word that the guard around the castle should be increased 
to its full strength, for fear that an attempt would be made to abduct his guest. 

Failing in their effort to see the former Kaiser, Colonel Lea and his party withdrew 
and returned to the regiment. Later an extensive investigation of the trip was made by 
General Headquarters at Chaumont, but after reading the testimony with regard to it, 
General Pershing completely exonerated all of any infraction of army regulations or 
violation of the laws with regard to neutral countries. The chief result of the trip was 
that Wilhelm was so frightened that for several months he rarely ventured out of the 
castle, in which he was a refugee, except under guard. 

Orders for the regiment to rejoin the Thirtieth Division, from which it had been 
separated since May, 1918, were received early in the new year, and on the morning of 
January 6 the march back through Luxemburg and France to the Toul area began. The 
route was by way of Kehlen, Petange, Villers-la-Montagne, Mercy-le-Haut, Abbeville, 
Puxieux and Thiaucourt to Boucgq. This trip, which was slightly to the east of the 
march northward, was made without any one-day stopovers en route. ‘The latter part 
of it was very interesting, for it lay through the heart of the sector which the regiment 
had held in the St. Mihiel drive. 

Route marching had been systematized so thoroughly on both of these journeys that 
beyond the cold weather and the inconvenience that was experienced sometimes in being 
forced to haul some distance the day’s supplies of rations and horse feed, the trip was 
made with little trouble. To the average civilian, quartering 1,200 or 1,300 men and 
stabling 1,000 horses, with all the transport that they drew, in two or three small, anti- 
quated villages would appear an almost insuperable task. Yet plans were so worked 
out that everything had been done—billets for men found, guns, caissons and wagons 
washed, horses watered, fed and groomed, harness wiped clean, and dinner was ready 
to serve—within an hour after the halt for the day had been made. Starting in the 


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mornings was just as easy, though longer time was required on account of waiting for 
the horses to eat. 

At Boucq, which was reached on the afternoon of January 13, all horses, guns, 
caissons, wagons, engineering and other kinds of materiel were tumed in, and only 
personal equipment and official records were left. Six days were consumed in this work 
and in waiting for the train which was to carry the regiment to the Le Mans area. On 
the afternoon of January 19 it marched to Trondes, a siding near Toul, where cars 
were waiting for the journey. 

The next six days, which were required to travel a distance of only about 300 miles, 
form one of the bitter memories of the regiment’s service. Were the story told in full, it 
would be an indictment almost as bitter as Macaulay’s description of conditions in 
India. Men were packed like sardines in box cars for the lack of sufficient room. They 
were so crowded that all could not lie down at the same time. ‘There was little heat, 
despite the fact that snow was on the ground and the cold was bitter outside. Day and 
night, according to orders, men and officers were kept under these conditions until on 
their arrival at Voutre on the afternoon of January 25, they looked little better than 
tramps—unshaved, unbathed, and almost black with dirt from travel. 

To add to the horrors of the trip, a railroad wreck occurred on the second day out 
near Manois, France. Four men of the regiment were killed outright—Louis Fasio, 
Sampson T. Hollis, Joe Capella, and John N. Wilkes; two died before they reached 
the hospital—Sim Watson and Onva K. Phillips; while seven others were more or 
less seriously injured. In addition, sixteen other men, who belonged to the 105th 
Ammunition Train and the 113th Field Artillery, lost their lives in the wreck, which 
was caused by the collision of two trains through the lack of air brakes on the one 
carrying the troops. It was running down grade at a speed of about twenty miles an 
hour when it crashed into the other, which was standing still. The first two or three 
cars behind the engine of the troop train were telescoped, and the men in them either 
mashed to death or injured in some way. 

To pile farce on tragedy, the inspector who was called from Chaumont to make 
an investigation of the wreck wished to court-martial Colonel Gleason, who was in 
command of the train; Captain Brown, officer of the day, and several other officers for 
‘negligence in permitting the wreck to occur. This was in spite of the fact that he had 
been shown that Colonel Gleason had filed formal protest, before the journey was begun, 
against traveling on a train without air brakes, and that not only all official regulations 
with regard to troop travel had been rigorously observed, but that even further precautions 
had been taken against accidents. 

The story of the stay in the Le Mans area is no pleasant one, either, due to stupidity 
of the same brand that the inspector mentioned above exhibited. Indeed, with due 
regard to the facts in the case, it may be said that the illness and death of several men 
was due to the criminal negligence of the commanding general of the forwarding camp. 
That the men and officers of the regiment, as well as the personnel of the other organi- 


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zations in the brigade, came home embittered against the army, and with a revulsion of 
feeling against those in high authority, may be traced largely to the treatment received 
in the last six weeks of their stay in France. 

The regiment remained in the vicinity of Voutre and Evron, about fifty kilometers 
west of Le Mans, from January 25 to February 5. On January 30 the brigade was 
inspected and reviewed by General Pershing and staff; Major-General Lewis, com- 
mander of the Thirtieth Division; Brigadier-General Faison, and other high officers. 
After the ceremonies, General Pershing spoke to the assembled officers and thanked 
them for the work that had been done by them and the men under them during their 
service in France. In a letter several days later to Major-General Lewis, he stated: 


“T inspected the artillery brigade of the division later, and found the same 
high standard of personnel that marks the rest of the division.” 


With the expectation of remaining only a few days for the purpose of delousing and 
drawing new clothing, the regiment moved into the forwarding camp of the embarkation 
area on February 5. Instead of a week or so, it remained more than a month. In place 
of having wood barracks, which were unoccupied on our arrival, the tent area was 
assigned, in spite of the fact that the weather was very damp and cold. For some days 
there were no floors in the tents and men slept upon the ground with not enough blankets 
to keep them warm. The amount of fuel was far from sufficient. Influenza became 
epidemic and several deaths and much sickness ensued. One hundred and fifty-eight 
men from the regiment were evacuated to the hospital, of whom ten—two from Battery 
C, four from Battery E, two from Battery F, and one each from the Headquarters and 
Supply Companies—died. The whole brigade was placed in quarantine, which was not 
lifted until February 17. In addition to the epidemic of sickness, which hurt badly its 
morale, the regiment was called on for innumerable details of men daily to do all kinds 
of work throughout the camp. Often as many as 600 men were engaged on these jobs, 
which seemed created more out of spite than through necessity. 

During the period in the forwarding camp, several promotions were made among the 
officers of the regiment on account of vacancies in the grade above, either in the regiment 
or within the brigade. Colonel Gleason received his promotion from lieutenant colonel to 
full colonel; First Lieutenants Mitchell. and Bell, who had served as adjutants of the 
First and Second Battalions, respectively, and First Lieutenant Cole, who had com- 
manded the Supply Company, were promoted to captaincies; while Second Lieutenants 
Carman, Bowles, Bass, Hunter, Johnson and Harmon were advanced to be first lieutenants: 

While in the tent area, Major-General Lewis of the Thirtieth Division visited and 
addressed the officers of the brigade. He also addressed the following letter to Brigadier- 
General Kilbreth in appreciation of the brigade’s services: 


“‘1. I have the deepest satisfaction in communicating to you my apprecia- 
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THE WRECK AND OTHER SCENES 


(1) Scene showing telescoped cars. (2) Car set on fire from engine, with Captain Brown in the fore- 
ground. (3) Artillery barrage at 4 o'clock in the morning. (4) Two of the cars smashed in the wreck. 
(5) Another view of the wreck, taken from a distance. (6) To the left, observatory of the Crown 
Prince in Montfaucon. 


Battery F, 1 


Top Row—Left to Right: Williams, Forehand, Holcomb, Smith, Locke, Best, Miller, Bradley 
Forehand, Riley, Coleman, Batts, Hood, Green, Wright, Bailey. : 
Second Row—Bolin, Brinnon, White, Melton, Calton, Hanson, Wilson, Miller, Dailey, Craft, 
Rackley, Green Sadler, Coffman, Looney, Billington. 
Third Row—McLean, Johnson, Bailey, Bradford, Walding, Fox, Odil, Bailey, Caldwell, 
Roberts, Callahan, Hughes, Mullins, Ring, Mefford. 
Fourth Row—Holcomb, Glaser, Bowlin, Paul, Johnson, Dooley, Cancelliare, Greensfelder, Shi 
Sterns, Kerns, Barr, Springer, Rhody, Burgess. j | 
Fifth Row—Fox, Nixon, Pinkston, Wiltshire, Matthews, Head, Campbell, Usher, Battles, Jenne 
Goodwin, Fox, Brown, Marston, Cocke, Northington, Brown. 
Sixth Row—Jarrett, Cunningham, McClain, Shannon, Brewer, Poag, Hays, Campbell, Meek, . 4 
Thornton, Reynolds, Rupe. i 


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eld Artillery 


ew, Wasson, Mullins, Brewer, Tidwell, Poag, Bailey, Hannah, Stanley, Mouchas, Kelso, Sweeney, 


ee Sai, Chorch, Burke, Grinnell, Safford, Poteet, Hughes, Crews, ‘Tomlin, 
Sellew, Peay, Morehead, Smith, Lapham, Waller, Campbell, Holmes, Harmon, Claytor, Byrnes, 
flailey, Kirk, Conway, Overton, Young, Smith, Helmick, Powell, Buchanan, Atkinson, Buchanan, 
Henderson, Capt., McNeil, Ist Lt. Craig, Capt, Andrews, Cranford, Allen, Johnston, Tomlin, 


Rudolph, Watson, Wiley, Watson, Booker, Bearden, Williams, Willerford, Crawford, Anderson, 


FORCE OF HABIT 


ON THE PINLAND 
THE SECOND DAY OUT 


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tion and admiration for the work accomplished by the Fifty-fifth Artillery Brigade 
during the period of its active operations, which I request that you communicate 
to the organizations of your command. 

- “2. My knowledge of the work done is based upon reports and comments 
from sources other than personal observation. The information thus obtained is 
all of the most commendable nature, beginning with your training period and 
extending through the operations of the brigade. In the course of these operations 
it fought under many divisions and corps, and was actively engaged from August 
27 to November 11, except for a period of eleven days, when it was marching 
from one sector to another. 

“3. The Thirtieth Division established an enviable record in service with 
the British, and the record of its artillery, detached to other fronts, is such as to 
admit it to full fellowship. 

**4. May you return home with a just feeling of pride and satisfaction in 
service well performed, and receive upon arrival the tribute of a grateful people 
that is your just due.” 


The horrors of the Le Mans camp were left behind on the afternoon of March 6, 
when the entire regiment entrained for St. Nazaire to take a boat home. After two days 
in the embarkation camp there, spent in final inspections and in checking up all paper 
work, everyone went on board the U. S. S. Finland at the St. Nazaire docks. It was 
a splendid, big boat, well equipped and far more comfortable than the H. M. S. Karoa, 
on which the trip to Europe was made. It carried 46 officers and 1,370 men of the 
regiment; eight officers and 55 men of the Fifty-fifth F. A. Brigade detachment; the 
115th Machine Gun Battalion; Battery A of the 115th Field Artillery, and a scattering 
list of casual officers and men. The total number of troops on board was 103 officers 
and 2,609 men. The boat put out to sea about noon of March 10, and no stops were 
made on the way across, although the route lay so close to the Azores Islands that it 
Was very easy to see them with the naked eye. When about midway across there was 
considerable trouble with one of the steamer’s engines, which stopped completely and 
slowed down the speed considerably. The trip was without incident, except the receipt 
of news, when only about three days from land, that Mrs. Lea, wife of Colonel Lea, 
had died suddenly the day on which the regiment embarked at St. Nazaire. This 
information threw a damper over everyone and clouded the joy of the home-coming. 

Hampton Roads were reached on the night of March 22, and the following morning 
at 6:30 o'clock the big boat docked at the pier at Newport News. A large number 
of friends and relatives were waiting to welcome the regiment and to receive approval 
of the plans for the triumphal tour which was to follow. Headed by the band, the 
batteries and companies marched through the streets of the city straight to Camp Stuart, 
where there were excellent quarters for everyone. During the next five days the usual 


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checking process was gone through with and new clothing was issued to those who needed 
it. The most courteous treatment and co-operation was received from all the camp 
authorities in speeding this work. 

Before and after our arrival, committees from the cities and towns in Tennessee 
had brought powerful pressure to bear upon the War Department to allow the returning 
state troops to parade in the principal cities, instead of going directly to Fort Oglethorpe 
to be mustered out of the service. Their pleas were heeded and permission was granted. 
Fortunately, our regiment was the first large unit to arrive and, therefore, was welcomed 
with the greatest edge of enthusiasm. 

Traveling on a special train in three sections, the regiment left Newport News on 
the morning of March 28, reaching the state line the following morning. At every 
station, until Knoxville was reached before noon, the people seemed to turn out en masse 
to welcome us. ‘The greeting at Morristown was especially hearty, an extra edition of 
the daily paper being issued for our benefit, and the splendid ladies of the Red Cross 
canteen, one of the finest in the country, supplying breakfast enough for twice as many 
men as there really were. At Knoxville, from which the men of Battery C were recruited 
largely, the whole regiment was received with open arms. ‘The city was gaily decked 
with flags and bunting, while a half-holiday was declared in honor of our arrival. 
Beautiful weather added to the celebration and joy of the home-coming. 

The last section, which had been delayed by engine trouble, did not arrive until 
after the middle of the afternoon and only a short while before the parade began. 
Forming before the Knoxville High School on Central Avenue, the route of march 
followed Central to Gay Street, thence north through the heart of the city to Cumberland 
Avenue, where it turned and doubled back on Market Street to Union Avenue, passing 
before the reviewing stand at Union and Gay. In the stand were Mayor McMillan, 
Judge Sanford, and a large party of city officials and prominent citizens and women. 
The crowd, which was estimated at 30,000 or more, lined the entire length of the 
march and shouted itself hoarse in welcome. The demonstration was far beyond what 
was expected. After the parade ended, a delicious supper, prepared by the women of 
Knoxville, was served on long tables in the streets, which were roped off for this purpose. 
After the supper another street was closed to traffic and a dance given under large 
electric lights which had been hung especially for the celebration. Another dance also 
was held at the Country Club for the officers. 

Worn out with the day’s festivities, all returned to the train during the night. Early 
Sunday morning, March 31, the three sections pulled out for Nashville, going by way 
of Chattanooga, which was reached toward noon. As the first section pulled into the 
Nashville yards about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, every whistle in the city was opened 
full blast to herald the regiment’s arrival. Instead of stopping at Union Station, the 
trains were parked on the siding in West Nashville at the back side of Centennial Park. 
There a large crowd was waiting to welcome the men, especially those of Batteries E 
and F and the Headquarters and Supply Companies which came from Middle Tennessee. 


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After instructions with regard to assembly the following morning for the parade, all 
organizations were dismissed and the men allowed to wander as they willed and to see 
their friends and relatives. 

The following morning, which was Monday, all business in Nashville and the 
surrounding towns. was practically at a standstill and the population seemed to turn out 
as a whole to witness the official home-coming. Conservative estimates of the crowd 
which viewed the parade were placed at 100,000, while many put the number at a half 
or as much again. A\ll agreed that it was the largest crowd ever assembled in Nashville. 
Pretty weather and good roads swelled it far beyond all expectations. 

The day began with the assembly of the regiment at the Parthenon in Centennial 
Park to hear addresses of welcome by Governor Roberts and E. C. Faircloth, to which 
Colonel Lea replied in behalf of the men and officers. Following the speeches, the 
parade began, winding out of the park to West End Avenue, which it followed until 
the Vanderbilt gate was reached. There it turned through the campus, on which three 
of the organizations had drilled twenty-one months before, and passed across Dudley 
Field to West End Avenue again, which it followed until Third Avenue was reached. 
After marching around the Square, the line led back Fourth Avenue to Church Street, 
thence west to Capitol Boulevard and up it through a dense mass of humanity, under 
the Victory Arch to the foot of Capitol Hill. There the young ladies of Ward-Belmont 
had formed a tableau of exquisite beauty to commemorate our return. The Governor 
and his staff also were drawn up in a reviewing stand to observe the march. 

After the parade through the heart of the city, the regiment marched back to the 
Hippodrome, near which the line of march had started, where an elaborate dinner was 
served by the women of Nashville. It was a banquet such as no hotel could have 
furnished except upon rare occasions. After the dinner a part of the street was roped 
off and those who wished to danced to their hearts’ content. Tickets to the picture shows 
and other places of amusement downtown were furnished to those who did not care for 
the dancing. The celebration continued until the train left Nashville for Chattanooga 
after midnight. 

The parade in Chattanooga was not held until April 3. Detraining at Camp Forrest 
on the morning of April 1, the batteries and companies were marched to barracks on 
the government reservation, where a special force of clerks and stenographers began the 
work of demobilization. Payrolls were made out, discharges signed, service records 
straightened out, and final physical examinations given. This work was not completed 
until April 6. 

The parade in Chattanooga was a repetition in comparative size and warmth of 
those at Knoxville and Nashville. The city was gaily decked and business ceased while 
it was held. The march was reviewed from a special stand in front of the Patten Hotel 
by General Scott, commandant at Fort Oglethorpe, and a party of city and state officials 
and prominent citizens. Battery B, recruited largely from Chattanooga and the sur- 


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rounding country, had the place of honor at the head of the column. After an address 
of welcome by Senator McKellar, to which Colonel Lea replied, the batteries were taken 
to churches for dinner. 

Preceding the final separation, the regiment was assembled at camp on the morning 
of April 6 and Colonels Lea and Gleason made farewell addresses in which they warmly 
thanked the men and officers under them for the co-operation and support that had been 
given in the trying months of service which preceded, and which had made possible the 
splendid record of the regiment. In the afternoon me regiment again was assembled and 
a photographer made a panoramic view of it. 

Discharges began the following morning. Batteries A, B, C, and D were formally 
mustered out on April 7, while Batteries E and F and the Headquarters and Supply 
Companies received their discharges the day following. By the night of April 8 every 
man, except a few who were forced to remain in the hospital for medical treatment, was 


out of the service, and the 114th Field Artillery was but a name to be remembered 
and cherished. 


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a bit different from that of the batteries. 


Itinerary 


Itinerary of the Regiment 


The places and dates given are those of regimental headquarters, which was often 


. Nashville, Tenn. . 

. Camp Sevier, S. C. 
. Camp Sevier, S. C. 
. New York, N. Y. . 
. New York, N. Y. (S. S. Kare) 
. Liverpool, England . f 

. Liverpool, England . 

. Winchester, England 

. Winchester, England 

. Southampton, England . 
. Southampton, England . 
. Le Havre, France 

. Le Havre, France 

. Guer, France .. 

. Guer, France .. 

. Camp de Coetquidan, Fudace 
. Camp de Coetquidan, France 
. Toul, France le 

. Troussey, France 

. Troussey, France 

. Sanzey, France . 

. Sanzey, France . 

. Minorville, France . 

. Minorville, France . 

. Bernecourt, France . 

. Bernecourt, France . 

. Flirey, France . . 

. Flirey, France . . 

. Bouillonville, France 

. Bouillonville, France 

. Rambucourt, France 

. Rambucourt, France 

. Pont-sur-Meuse, Rane 
. Pont-sur-Meuse, France 
. Pierrefitte, France 

. Pierrefitte, France 

. Beauzee, France 

. Beauzee, France 

. Ippecourt, France 

. Ippecourt, France 


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4:00 PM September 9, 1917 


4:00 AM September 11, 


. 11:30 AM May 19, 1918 
. 8:00 AM May 21, 1918 
3:00 PM May 26, 1918 


8:00 PM June 6, 1918 
8:00 AM June 9, 1918 
3:00 PM June 9, 1918 


1917 


9:00 


- 11:00 


7:00 
4:00 
5:00 
5:00 


AM June 12, 1918 
AM June 12, 1918 
PM June 12, 1918 
AM June 13, 1918 
AM June 14, 1918 
AM June 16, 1918 


6:00 AM June 16, 1918 
8:00 AM June 16, 1918 


9:00 AM August 20, 1918 
3:00 AM August 22, 1918 


- 11:00 PM August 22, 1918 


9:00 PM August 24, 1918 
1:30 AM August 25, 1918 


8:00 PM September 11, 
9:00 PM September 11, 


. 10:00 AM September 12, 
. 11:09 AM September 12, 


8:00 PM September 12, 


. 10:00 AM September 13, 


8:00 PM September 14, 
8:30 AM September 15; 
6:00 PM September 15, 
5:30 AM September 16, 
7:00 PM September 17, 
3:00 AM September 18, 
8:00 PM September 18, 
3:00 AM September 19, 
8:00 PM September 19, 
5:30 AM September 20, 
6:30 PM September 20, 


. 10:00 PM August 26, 1918 
. 11:00 PM August 26, 1918 


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1918 
1918 
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1918 
1918 
1918 
1918 
1918 
1918 
1918 


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Itinerary 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


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. Kehlen, Luxemburg 


. Petange, Luxemburg 


Rarecourt, France 
Rarecourt, France . . . 
Bois de Brocourt, France 
Bois de Brocourt, France 
P. C. Hermont, France 
P. C. Hermont, France 
Bois de Chehemin, France 
Bois de Chehemin, France 


Bois de Recicourt, France . 


Bois de Recicourt, France 
Baldincourt, France 
Baldincourt, France 
Woimbey, France 
Woimbey, France 

St. Remy, France 

St. Remy, France 
Boncourt, France 
Boncourt, France 
Bouligny, France 
Bouligny, France 
Arrancy, France 
Arrancy, France 
Herserange, Luxemburg 
Herserange, Luxemburg 
Leudelange, Luxemburg 
Leudelange, Luxemburg . 
Schutterange, Luxemburg °. 
Schutterange, Luxemburg . 
Ehnen, Luxemburg . 
Ehnen, Luxemburg . 
Schutterange, Luxemburg . 
Schutterange, Luxemburg . 
Moesdorf, Luxemburg . 
Moesdorf, Luxemburg . 
Tuntingen, Luxemburg 


Tuntingen, Luxemburg 


Kehlen, Luxemburg 


. Petange, Luxemburg 

. Villers-la-Montagne, France 
. Villers-la-Montagne, France 
. Mercy-le-Haut, France 

. Mercy-le-Haut, France 

. Abbeville, France 

. Abbeville, France 

. Puxieux, France 

. Puxieux, France 

. Thiaucourt, France 


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. 11:00 PM September 20, 1918 


8:00 PM September 22, 1918 
4:00 AM September 23, 1918 


. 8:00 PM September 24, 1918 
. 11:00 PM September 24, 1918 


3:00 PM September 27, 1918 
7:00 PM September 27, 1918 
8:00 PM October 6, 1918 
4:00 AM October 7, 1918 
3:00 PM October 8, 1918 
8:30 PM October 8, 1918 
8:00 AM October 9, 1918 
7:00 PM October 9, 1918 
6:00 PM October 10, 1918 


- 12:00 PM October 10, 1918 


9:30 AM December 7, 1918 
8:00 PM December 7, 1918 
8:00 AM December 9, 1918 
3:00 PM December 9, 1918 


- 10:00 AM December 10, 1918 


2:00 PM December 10, 1918 
8:00 AM December 11, 1918 
3:00 PM December 11, 1918 
8:30 AM December 12, 1918 
7:00 PM December 12, 1918 
8:00 AM December 14, 1918 
3:00 PM December 14, 1918 
8:30 AM December 15, 1918 


- 11:00 AM December 15, 1918 
- 10:00 AM December 17, 1918 
- 12:30 PM December 17, 1918 


8:00 AM December 19, 1918 
3:00 PM December 19, 1918 
8:30 AM December 21, 1918 


- 12:30 PM December 21, 1918 


9:30 AM January 6, 1919 


- 12:30 PM January 6, 1919 


8:00 AM January 7, 1919 
2:00 PM January 7, 1919 
8:00 AM January 8, 1919 
1:00 PM January 8, 1919 
8:00 AM January 9, 1919 


. 11:30 AM January 9, 1919 


8:00 AM January 10, 1919 


. 12:30 PM January 10, 1919 


8:00 AM January 11, 1919 
1:00 PM January 11, 1919 
8:00 AM January 12, 1919 
2:00 PM January 12, 1919 


Le en ee a 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Ly. Thiaucourt, France 
Ar. Boucq, France 
Ly. Boucq, France 
Ar. Voutre, France . 
Ly. Voutre, France . 


8:00 AM 
3:00 PM 
4:00 PM 
4:30 PM 
9:15 AM 


Itinerary 


January 13, 1919 
January 13, 1919 
January 19, 1919 
January 25, 1919 
February 5, 1919 


Ar. Le Mans (Forwarding ‘Gamp) : 3:30 PM February 5, 1919 
Ly. Le Mans (Forwarding Camp) . 4:00 PM March 6, 1919 
Ar. St. Nazaire, France ; 4:00 AM March 7, 1919 
Ar. Embarkation Camp, St. Nuetiee 7:00 AM March 7, 1919 
Ly. Embarkation Camp, St. Nazaire 7:30 AM March 9, 1919 
Ly. St. Nazaire, France, U. 8. S. Finland 11:30 AM March 10, 1919 
Ar. Newport News, Virginia . 6:30 AM March 23, 1919 
Ar. Camp Stuart, Virginia 9:00 AM March 23, 1919 
Ly. Camp Stuart, Virginia 10:18 AM March 28, 1919 
Ar. Knoxville, Tennessee 10:00 AM March 29, 1919 
Ly. Knoxville, Tennessee 4:00 AM March 30, 1919 
Ar. Nashville, Tennessee 4:00 PM March 30, 1919 


1:00 AM April 1, 1919 
. 10:00 AM April 1, 1919 


Ly. Nashville, Tennessee 
Ar. Camp Forrest, Georgia 


ARMIES, CORPS, AND DIVISIONS WITH WHICH THE REGIMENT 
SERVED IN FRANCE 


ARMY Corps DIvISION 
MEE eS ry. al AE Cs, Hl 30 
Peewee el a TV 89 
MeeCPrentt)) sols oe ee ae 
I et LD ee 92 
I V 37 
I V 32 
II VII 79 
II B.A Hi 33 
III Sa || 33 
II V 33 

II amet 


Of the divisions given above, the regiment took part in engagements with the Eighty- 
ninth in the Toul Defensive and the St. Mihiel Offensive; with the Thirty-seventh and 
Thirty-second in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive; with the Seventy-ninth and Thirty-third 
in the Woevre Defensive; and with the Thirty-third in the Woevre Offensive on Novem- 
ber 11, 1918. 


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Wounded and Gassed 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


List of Wounded and Gassed 


Following are the names and rank of the men and officers in the regiment who were 
awarded wound chevrons, together with the dates on which they were wounded or gassed. 
In explanation of this list, it should be stated that the order upon awarding wound chevrons 
left great latitude to the battery commander in recommending those who should receive 
them. Some construed the order literally, others gave it a very liberal interpretation. 


Borner, FRANK T., Pvt. 1ClI. 


Keywoop, Orsra A., Pvt. ICI. . 


SATTERLY, JAMEs A., Pvt. 
SmitH, Marve ty F., Cpl. . 
Watpaeur, Ase D., Pvt. . 
Vescova, PauL, Pvt. 


MacPuait, Leanp S., Captain 
Monacuan, Matt, 2nd Lt. 
Boone, ALEX W., Ist Lt. . 
Simmons, WILiiAM C., Pvt. 
Ho.serT, Ropert A., Pvt. 
STRICKLIN, JoHN A., Set. . 
STanLey, Bruce E., Mech. 
Ramsey, JoHn N., Pvt. 
Voct, Wituiam C., Pvt. 
Rocers, JoHn, Pvt. . 
ScHNEIDER, JOSEPH, Pvt. 
Woop, Rate K., Cpl. 
Gattis, CLAuDE J., Cpl. 
Wuite, Wituam M., Pvt. 
Bozo, Cuartes A., Pvt. 
Dake, Wituam B., Cpl. 
Dent, Fravis I., Cpl. 

Eaves, RosBerT E., Pvt. 
EpENS, JAMES F., Pvt. 
Fercuson, Nicuotras, Pvt. 
GarDNER, WILLIAM H., Set. 
Garrison, WILLIAM N., Pvt. . 
GEIGER, WINFIELD H., Pvt. 
GILLEy, Jasper D., Pvt. 
GiLtiaM, FEATHERSTONE, Cpl. 
GreEN, Dewey S., Pvt. 


BATTERY A 


BATTERY B 


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. Gassed October 19, 1918 

. Wounded September 13, 1918 
. Wounded September 13, 1918 
. Gassed October 6, 1918 

. Gassed October 17, 1918 

. Gassed October 6, 1918 


. Gassed October 12, 1918 

. Gassed October 7, 1918 

- Wounded September 12, 1918 
. Wounded September 13, 1918 


- Wounded October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 
- Gassed October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 
. Gassed October 7, 1918 


. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 
. Gassed October 12, 1918 


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HERE AND THERE OVER FRANCE 


(1) On the hike to Luxemburg. (2) Huts at regimental headquarters near St. Remy in the Woevre 
sector. (3) Traveling third-class in France. (4) Fourgon of Battery C. (5) Rolling kitchen of Bat- 
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kitchen on the march. 


Headquarters Compi 


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Second Row—Clark, Bartles, Monday, Martin, Reed, Whittaker, Hosse, Eastman, Gunselman, Lyn: 
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Third Row—Leith, Wynn, Freeman, Jones, Whitworth, Cheney, Boren, Bearden, Saye, Redford 
Mackey, Bell, Wiley, Frazer. 

Fourth Row—Nannie, Goodloe, Newman, Bray, Southall, Pierce, Byrns. Kelly, Paty, McGowar 
Alexander, Baker, Eggleston. 

Fifth Row—Parmelee, Cheek, Runyan, Elhardt, Teas, Gray, Groom, Hovis, Amis, Fields, Cap 
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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Wounded and Gassed 


IMPIOSESAGNARD Fe yilr. Gj. 1. 2 =) 3 OS Ge eS we: &) ee) 4 Gassed’ October 12,1918 


ferns sreneh Gilets) 5 ee 3 ee et ss Gassed - October ‘12; 1918 
PERE MATSUO E Vts Sts fia ete ee es ve, ~. Gassed’. -October 12; 1918 
Pre MsEREAMe Woe vEs Sk) cS a ee ee 8 ee Gassed + October. 12, 1918 
Prwave GENFeAr Mie Mech ji . . |= « =. :'. - = + = «= « « Gassed~ October 12: 1918 
PIMMURMME RABY SE VES hy pki Se we ek 2A Gassed” “October? 127'1918 
MbpaONSRDHGMAS Sayre 6) 55 2 oc ok Le &) S.  Gassed’. October’ 12, 1918 
PET IORNeEI PvE es eee le) we 3 Gassed’* ‘October 12; 1918 
MRIMPREEOP AMINE EE ois) Ms ks ee es wR Kee & 6 Gassed:’ October 12, 1918 
Pree IENRMBe Ever fei) © Bs oc we & 1a) ee, os Gassed” ‘October 12;° 1918 
PPP PCPRRENGE DE Eni fe). Se is eke Sh oe 2 ss Gasded’ ~ October 12, 1918 
SrENNMaMInE WL yes fs Sk tle) eee sk... . Gassed October. 12, 1918 
MEIER IGUNGWe Seer =; 5-0 em ee a =. - Gassed October 12," 1918 
ianrrseipmrmiee (Pei 6h Cd) is 3 ke as tes we ae se, wo Gassed -Oetober 12; 1918 
MeCN nEARPne VEE. 5 be a eS a  s . , Gassed > October 12, -1918 
rE NISRA EE 6 Le ke ee 6S! es Gassed ’ October ‘12; 1918 
DAERGOULIERMAN, Fut.) 2 2 ss ey fe (See... Gassed October 12, 1918 
MRGMOLRPET Kee Sot tee. C!s ffs Ss ce Se . Gassed October, 12; 1918 
SMEHMPERIOBERT MS topt is fos Ss Se eee ss. Gassed, October 12) 1918 
Hnmeunce BEANE Es Spine) |. ue ces) yc Se ~. s) + Gassed ~ October 12, 1918 
eames Te 5) ss 8. Gassed October 12, 1918 
Pe Onli 2 2 8. cos we te eee ty J Gassed “October 12,, 1916 
fevers Ware Geibyt |.) 5c ocSne ww es ahs Se = Gassed- October 12, 1918 
Miners Se ke te se Siw ee ws ~ Gassed «= October 12, 1918 
Manne 8 ee ee eee. Gassed «= October 12, 1918 
rier Soo | fe Wk ee ee ees Gassed October 12, 1918 
Seer EE EM sc Ay. 2 ke Ss es a ds. a» S Gassed October 12, 1916 
Piemmons, Wiuam F., Pvt. . . . . . . . . . . + = + -Gassed October 20, 1918 
BATTERY C 
Goopson, CLARENCE C., Pvt. BG re Rat de A te ie 0 OS aonded: October 29, 1918 
Burien eraners Ko PvE). . - 5 2. Se Ye ee S » Wounded- October 29, 1918 
Berincer Hluce E Py... . is 2 ee ee se SS Wounded November: 11,) 1918 
Camm REEP IEE, os ee Se ee Se Gh ye Sw, = Gassed November) 115° 1918 
RBrINSANenIBHNL E> Set. sei es) gfe ke) ss Ys Wounded November 13, 1918 
BATTERY D 
Dr@arr Joun, Pvt 10 2. . 2. f-. - 2 ss --- « « + = Wounded September 12, 1918 
Fetrow, Crarence E., Pvt. . . - - - - - . . =. - + + ~ « Wounded September 12, 1918 
Maerentew i brwis 2 EVE 2°. .) hice Ss es ho See Gassed.,. October 12, 1918 
BATTERY E. 
PAPE IBYINGG eet) 2) SS) su bs) eee 8 2 ose = Gassed’ - October 15, 1918 
FAUCEINS LE IOOPER. E> Corpr tts) 2) 25s oe sins Mer ey eyt w/o te) Gassed’) ‘October: “15,1918 
BReWhDE WETS) EWE .0os04c 6 ek me pe) we ee Car cet) Gassed). (Oetober 115, - 1918 
BaowNerrearrrrr, Pvt. 2-5 2 ey) dy Hoe la eee ee =v Gassed) October 15). 1918 
EPL OCET AP smi yi mays eS gS one oe) Sv Gassed. (October: 15, 1918 


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eR ETUROHERGNINS Sot 2 sos a) ele) oe a et te Oe, « Gassed! | ‘October (15; 1918 


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Wounded and Gassed 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Bo.uinc, Wayne F., Pvt. . 
NELson, WALLACE C., Pvt. 
Enruart, OLue T., Set. 
Brap.ey, CuLure W., Sgt. 
BENNETT, Wituiam M., Pvt. . 


HicciInBoTHAM, WALLACE, Cpl. . 


LancHaM, SAMUEL B., Pvt. 
MitcHeELL, Joun J., Pvt. 
RanbotpH, GeorcE T., Pvt. . 
Me tuiort, JoHn M., Jr., Pvt. 


HucuHeEs, Raymonp, Pvt. . 
GREEN, WILLIAM H., Cook 
Totiey, JosEPH W., Set. . 


Brown, Evswortu, Ist Lt. 


Henry, Date M., Sd'lr. 
Situ, JosepH, H’r’s. . 
BarseeE, Sot T., Wagoner . 


REYNoLDs, Rosert L., Pvt. 1Cl. 


HurrMan, Roy, Pvt... 


. Gassed October 15, 1918 
. Gassed October 15, 1918 
. Gassed October 15, 1918 
. Gassed October 15, 1918 
. Gassed October 15, 1918 
. Gasséd October 15, 1918 
. Gassed October 15, 1918 
. Gassed October 15, 1918 
. . Gassed October 15, 1918 
, Gassed October 15, 1918 


BATTERY F 


HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 


SUPPLY COMPANY 


(106) 


. Gassed 


. Wounded November 29, 
. Wounded November 29, 
. Wounded November 29, 
. Wounded November 29, 
. Wounded November 29, 


. Wounded September 30, 1918 
. Wounded October 2, 1918 
. Wounded November 11, 1918 


September 28, 1918 


1918 
1918 
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1918 
1918 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Commissions from the Ranks 


Members of the Regiment Who Were Commissioned 
From the Ranks 


These officers are classified according to the organization in which they enlisted for 


service. 


BATTERY A 


Apams, Davip B.—Second Officers’ Training 
Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

Dunton, Harotp F.—Second Officers’ Train- 
ing Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

Pinkston, JoHN R.—Second Officers’ Training 
Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 


Piper, OLiver—Second Officers’ Training 
Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

MonacHan, Matr.—Special Training School 
at Camp Sevier, S. C. 

Fentress, MANcuUM—Saumur Artillery School, 


Saumur, France. 


BATTERY B 


Biste, BernarD B.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

JeENNiNGs, BERNARD A.—Third Officers’ Train- 
ing Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

Jounson, Rosert T.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 


McCotitum, CLaRENCcE H.—Special Training 
School at Camp Sevier, S. C. 

MitcHELL, Jesse M.—Special Training School 
at Camp Sevier, S. C. 


BATTERY C 


Doak, SamuEL A.—Second Officers’ Training 
Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

Gopparp, THomas W.—Second Officers’ Train- 
ing Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. (Killed in 
action in Second Battle of the Marne, July, 
1918.) 

SmitH, MaxweL_t T.—Second Officers’ Train- 
ing Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 

Giteert, JoHN W.—Special Training School at 
Camp Sevier, S. C. 

Bruner, LyteE—Third Officers’ Trainmg Camp, 
Leon Springs, Texas. 


Moore, GeorcE E.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

Davis, Paut H.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

DempsTER, JoHN M.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

Watson, Howarp P.—Saumur Artillery School, 
Saumur, France. 

Nunn, WiLuam T., Jr—Commissioned in Avi- 
ation Corps. 

CANTRELL, WiLtiaM H.—Commissioned by 55th 
F. A. Brigade Hdatrs. 


BATTERY D 


Hunter, Cryp—E H.—Special Training School 
at Camp Sevier, S. C. 

Carman, WiLuiam C.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

Witts, Riey—Third Officers’ Training Camp, 
Leon Springs, Texas. 


Boyce, Joun F.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

Wiccs, Norman S.—Saumur Artillery School, 
Saumur, France. 


SR ST a RS SS EIT LE SOS LET IE LP IO NT ETD 


Commissions from the Ranks HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 
BATTERY E 
THompson, Extmo—Second Officers’ Training JosepH, Ciay E.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 
Evers, FranK B.—Special Training School at SHARPE, WILLIAM P.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp Sevier, S. C. © Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 
Bert, Rospert H.—Special Training School at Pascua, WiLutiam D.—Third Officers’ Train- 
Camp Sevier, S. C. ing Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 
FaircLotn, E. C., Jr.—Special Training School Bruce, Wituiam P., Jr.—Third Officers’ Train- 
at Camp Sevier, S. C. ing Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 
Pork, Horace T.—Special Training School at Graze, JoHN W.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp Sevier, S. C. Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 
NELson, CHAaRLES—Special Training School at TENNIsoN, ALonzo M.—Third Officers’ Train- 
Camp Sevier, S. C. ing Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 
BATTERY F 
PoInTER, THomas W.—Special Training School Buckner, Epwarp R.—Saumur Artillery 
at Camp Sevier, S. C. School, Saumur, France. 
SHarp, JoHn B.—Special Training School at WarFIELD, Francis B.—Commissioned by Goy- 
Camp Sevier, S. C. ernor Rye in Tennessee. 


Rosison, Dan M.—Third Officers’ Training 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 


HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 


Lone, GEorcE—Second Officers’ Training Camp, Mauer, THomas D.—Special School, Camp 
Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Sevier, S. C. 

Craic, WiLLiamM R.—Saumur Artillery School, SmitH, DaniEL O.—Special School, Camp Se- 
Saumur, France. vier, S. C. 

Bass, CLarK N.—Special School, Camp Sevier, FRrIERSON, WILLIAM C.—Third Officers’ Train- 
sh (G ing School, Leon Springs, Texas. 

Suaw, JouHn W.—Special School, Camp Sevier, Hucues, Owen W.—Third Officers’ Training 
Se School, Leon Springs, Texas. 


SUPPLY COMPANY 
DaniEL, Wituiam M.—Third Officers’ Training KLEEMAN, WILLIAM—Saumur Artillery School, 
Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. Saumur France. 
In addition to the above men who received their commissions, the following also 
completed satisfactorily the artillery course at the Saumur Artillery School, but were 
prevented by the armistice from receiving their commissions: 


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Poems HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Poems 


The following poems are taken from a collection written by Private Lawrence M. 
Connolly, of Battery A, and entitled ‘““Blowing The Blues,” or “From Bughouse to 
Berlin.”” They strike off very aptly some of the sentiments and experiences of the regiment 


while in France. 
The Buck Private 


He’s absent or late at formations, 

His clothing has all gone astray; 
He'll wander all over creation 

If you don’t check him up night and day. 
He has traded his hob-nails and slicker 

For a canteen of “Gas Attack” booze. 
So long as he’s full of the liquor, 

Why the deuce should he wear any shoes? 
The breech-bolt is stuck in his rifle, 

His blankets are dirty and damp, 
His trousers are torn “just a trifle,” 

His equipment’s the laugh of the camp. 


He’s running the officers crazy, 
He causes the non-coms to groan, 
Just take it from me, he’s a daisy— 
From his ears up he’s all solid bone. 
He is transported, paid and protected, 
He is doctored, nursed, sheltered and fed. 
If he’s killed, it’s just what was expected— 
And he’s worth a small fortune when dead. 
His job is the best one invented, 
Regardless of privilege or rank; 
If he’s just let alone he’s contented, 
"Cause he don’t give a blankety-blank. 


Mud 


I sometimes dream of an asphalt street, 

And a concrete pavement where my feet 
Can click and scrape, and hanging high 

A corner arc-light greets the eye. 

A passing car with clanging bell, 

And other signs that clearly tell 

Of a town’s that’s living and up-to-date, 
With a railroad yard and a puffing freight; 
Or an auto hom, or a motor pant; 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Poems 


Or a good square meal in a restaurant; 
Or a little girl with a shining face 

In a summer frock ofi frills and lace; 
Or a shady seat in a park some day 
While the band concert is under way; 
Or a table green in a billiard hall 
With a perfect cue and an ivory ball; 
Or an open fire and a story book; 

Or else a bunch in a quiet nook 

In a game of “black-jack,” pitch or “stud” 
Or anything else than “Argonne Mud.” 


Decorations 
While I'd like a bunch to peddle, 


I’m not keen to win a medal, 

Or a ribbon with the cherished “Croix-de-Guerre.” 
For I much prefer reclining 
Far away from shrapnel’s whining 

In my dug-out, and you bet I’m staying there. 
For unless I’m hit dead center, 
Why, there ain’t a thing can enter. 

Take my word, such spots ain’t often to be found. 
Let old “Fritz” throw his “‘high-exes,” 
As his shooting never vexes 

When a guy is ten feet underneath the ground. 


Yes, of course, I lose the glory, 
But I'll live to tell the story 

Of how the Boches made me hunt my hole. 
Though he shells us without ending, 

And his fire our way he’s sending, 

I can answer “Here” to every muster roll. 
There’s a cross for which I’m slaving, 
Working, dreaming, scheming, saving, 

Take every opportunity | find. 

And I’m fighting fierce and frantic 
For a “Cross-de-broad-Atlantic’ — 
That's the “cross” on which I’ve firmly set my mind. 


Propaganda 


A Boche machine comes sailing by from somewhere o’er the hill. 
He carries tidings through the sky to us from Kaiser Bill. 

While riding high above the trees, he gives the string a pull, 

And scattered to the evening breeze, there falls a rain of “bull.” 
“To the soldiers in the trenches,” reads the message from the Hun. 
“They're deceiving you, these Frenchies, for the war has just begun. 
Why should you come out and battle for a mob of crazy ‘Frogs?’ 


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Poems HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


They're a phony bunch of cattle, and a thankless lot of dogs. 

They stand back and do the yelling, while you guys conduct the scrap; 
They are safe from all the shelling, you get ‘high-ex’ gas and ‘shrap.” 

Why not stop this awful fooling, spreading ruin thruout the land? 

Drop your gun, and while it’s cooling, come across and we'll shake hands.” 


Said a gunner as he read it: “Gee, they've got a stack o’ gall! 
Don’t them rummies give us credit for a bit o’ sense at all? 
They're wasting time in writin’ stuff that only makes us grin, 
And this bunk of ‘stop the fighting’—let “em wait till we begin! 
For our Uncle Sam ain't started; just a sample—half a score 
From the U. S. shores departed—we expect ten million more. 
And the guy that pens this rumor from that square-head German bunch, 
Say—he has a sense o’ humor, he could write for ‘Judge’ or’ ‘Punch.’ 

Does he think our heads so tender that we'll come across the hill 

To shake hands and then surrender? Oh, yes, you bet, like HELL we will! 
If they think that we will tumble in the game they try to pull 
They have made an awful rumble: We invented “Throwing Bull. 


Pa 


Home, Sweet Home 


I remember, I remember, the house where I was raised, 

In a verdant field of clover where the lowing cattle grazed. 

The shady lawn, the orchard, and each well remembered nook, 

I can shut my eyes and fancy yet the way they used to look. 

But when that fated day rolled round and Wilson called the draft, 
I tried to be among em, but the doctor only laughed. 

“Why, Napoleon, I’m surprised at you,” and here the doctor smiled. 
“This job of slugging Germans is but pastime for a child. 

You can’t waste your valued talents in this puny schgol debate; 
And, remember, you're a patient in the ‘bug-house’ of the State. 
There will be sufficient soldiers; we've already sent a crowd, 

So a patient out of Bolivar would scarcely be allowed.” 


Still, I wouldn’t heed his warning and remain a welcome guest, 
For martial music filled my soul—I simply couldn’t rest. 
I left the house at midnight, after breaking down the door, 
And started out for “Hunland,” bent on drinking German gore. 


* * * % % % 


When I think about the cozy bed, and all the easy chairs, 

And the clean white dining table, where I got three daily squares, 
My heart is filled with longing, and my soul is filled with grief; 
Though I dream of eggs and biscuits, I am filled with “bully beef.” 
As I hike the German highways with my blanket-roll and pack, 

I am hoping, praying, trusting that I'll presently be back. 

There I'll settle down in comfort, far away from woe and strife. 
You should follow me and try it, for, believe me, “It’s the life.” 


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THE PARADE AT NASHVILLE 


(1) Colonels Lea and Gleason, mounted, rounding the turn at the foot of Capitol Hill. (2) High 
School girls on the Capitol steps. (3) A glimpse of the crowd on Capitol Boulevard. (4) Battery D 
after passing through the Victory Arch. (5) Major Frierson leading the Second Battalion, near the 
head of Capitol Boulevard. (6) Tableau on Capitol steps given by Ward-Belmont students. 


Supply Company 


Top Row—Left to Right: Wortham, Keel, Roberson, Osborne, Wall, Watson, Brown, Farmer, 
darth, Gallop, Smith, Wright, Taylor, King. 

Second Row—Markham, Fairfield, McBee, Roberts, Kirby, Frech, Hipsher, Green, Johnson, Hat 
Montgomery, Gillespi, Thomas, Shipley, Elliott. 

Third Row—Cox, Smith, Smith, Stine, Tarwater, Thornton, Williams, Abner, Shipley, Sphears, 
McDaniels, Shockley. 

Fourth Row—Vanni, McIntyre, Awtrey, Guess, Morrison, Neblett, Keel, Davis, Mabry, Hoope 

Sitting—Justice, Caldwell, Gray, Logan. 


Field Artillery 


urrett, Duggan, Everhardt, Boehms, Henry, Mallicoat, Johnson, King, Campbell, Adkins, Sud- 


Jackson, Key, Majors, Sartain, Hailey, Quarrels, James, McCeldry, Malone, Pollard, Shipley, 
Woods, Taylor, Haggard, Williams, Long, Ager, Gilbert, Davis, Haygood, Ferguson, Hatfield, 


t Lt., Cole, Capt, Neeley, 2d Lt, Holmes, Cox, Longhurst, Williams, McHugh, Smith. 


Back Home AGAIN 


(1) Colonels Lea and Gleason leading the parade down Broad Street toward the business section. (2) 
Banquet given the regiment by the citizens of Nashville at the Hippodrome. 


Complete Rosters 

of Batteries, Companies, 
and Detachments of 
the Regiment 


Rosters 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Battery A 


OFFICERS 
Names and Rank Address 
Browning, Gordon, Captain..Huntingdon, Tenn. 
McCormack, Edward J., Capt...Memphis, Tenn. 
Chandler, Walter C., Ist Lt......Memphis, Tenn. 
soymer, (Gury, ey, St ts 2 secs weer: Memphis, Tenn. 
HaASU, WOGD MET Atty Mets lccarcrenetetererntetnueie stone Unknown 
Harr, Lee B., ist Lt........Johnson City, Tenn. 
Fisher, Samuel J., 1st Lt....... Asheville, N. C. 
Carman, William C., 1st Lt..... .Camden, Tenn 
Bowles, Harry L. W., 2d Lt...... Detroit,, Mich. 
Bacigalupo, Paul, 2d Lt........ Memphis, Tenn. 
Neely, James H., 2d Lt..... ....-Memphis, Tenn. 
ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Abshire, Acy E., Pvt...... AE Inte Tyler, Mo 
Adams; Johny wy MP ivtie memes cia cveh dite eee Unknown 
Addison, Bijie, Pvt....... Highland Home, Ala. 
Alexander. Jas.) Bz.) Ee Vitscvatsteieins Memphis, Tenn. 
Allen, Will A., Mech...... : ..Lambert, Miss. 
Amond, Leland H., Pvt...... ...Potsdam, N. Y. 
Anthony, Ruben J., Pvt...... Collierville, Tenn. 
Arnold, Prentice E., Ch. Mech..Memphis, Tenn. 
Arriotti, Peitt, Cpl....... 3 .Memphis, Tenn. 
Aust, John R., Cpl............Nashville, Tenn. 
Austin, Jesse D., H’r’s........Lexington, Tenn. 
Barker, (Wane PUP Vtim vacrsrre ee ..-Memphis, Tenn. 
Barnett, Oliver O., Pvt........ Blytheville, Ark. 
Barrasso, Arthur, Pvt..... .....Memphis, Tenn. 
Barrasso, Silva, Cook........... Memphis, Tenn. 
iBarton;) Charlie) TP ites <eelsss Memphis, Tenn. 
Barton, Murray, Pvt............ Memphis, Tenn. 
Bates, Robert L., Pvt. 1Cl...... Memphis, Tenn. 
Baucom, "hoss Ax) \Cplss ce. -ta. .....Gates, Tenn. 
Baxter Dink Hi Cooks a a claier. Memphis, Tenn. 
Bee WRIA ION Seite aleve sia ek tsiereiae -Memphis, Tenn. 
Bellanger, Henry J., Pvt....N. Stratford, N. H. 
Bennett, Lingham F., Pvt..... -Freeland, N. C. 
Bennett, Paul!) CL) '\Cooki.), 2. oe.) Durham, N. C. 
Berlacksr Winn UP vib li Oi ttite se Memphis, Tenn. 
Biddy; s Davis Er Ssotaeis screenees se Memphis, Tenn. 
Borner, Frank T., Pvt. 1Cl.. ..Memphis, Tenn. 
Boyd, Samuel J., Cpl...... .. Memphis, Tenn. 
Broadwell, John mS Pvt... nin taley oh Cassandra, Pa. 
Brooks, | Mred: as) UP viii esctsieta ate -Memphis, Tenn. 
Brown PIAS OOl aisle stasis Memphis, Tenn. 
Brown, Michael A., Pvt....... ....Portage, Pa. 
Buchanan; Wim. EE), Pyt....:-.. Memphis, Tenn. 
Burnett, Carl U., Pvt. 1Cl.Bethel Springs, Tenn. 
Burnett, Geo; EH.) Pvt. LC). W-)-1: Memphis, Tenn. 
Burnett, Geo. L., Pvt. 1Cl....... Bolivar, Tenn. 
Burrus, Geo; H,,) Pvt. fei... 2 Memphis, Tenn, 
Burrus, Oscar T., Pvt. 1Cl......Memphis, Tenn. 
Bynim, Poh Cpl, iaaisicissisisls Memphis, Tenn. 
Cannon, Ernest H., Pvt...... Tracy City, Tenn. 
Canestrari, Jas., Pvt. 1Cl....... Memphis, Tenn. 
Carstens, Clarence S., Pvt... Memphis, Tenn. 
Cecil, Dennis F., Pvt..........Memphis, Tenn. 
Chambers, Nelson O., Cpl....... Memphis, Tenn. 
Chamblin, Aubrey B., Pvt. 1Cl..... Sardis, Miss. 
Chisholm, Ernest W., Pvt...... Memphis, Tenn. 
Clark, Alfred O., Pvt...... .....Memphis, Tenn. 
Clarke, Edgar W., Pvt........ Carrollton, Miss. 
Clarke, Jas. S., Pvt............Memphis, Tenn. 
Clasgens, Wm. H., Set.........Memphis, Tenn. 
Cleary, Michael J., Pvt........ Memphis, Tenn. 
Collins, John T., Pvt. «s.e2...-..-Memphis, Tenn, 
Connelly, Lawrence N., Ere -Memphis, Tenn. 
Cook, William P., Pvt. Miatevetatens : _Memphis, Tenn. 
Cooper, Joseph E,, Pvt.........Memphis, Tenn. 
Costley, Daniel W., Pvt.... SoD Gad t Unknown 
Cox, Wm. T., Jr., Pvt. 1Cl.... Birmingham, Ala. 
Crowe, Geo. E., Pvt....... ....-Memphis, Tenn. 
Crowson, Jas. R., Pvt............Sturgis, Tenn. 
Cuckler, Seymore, Pvt.......... Sophia, W. Va. 
Cummings, Oris A,, Sgt........Memphis, Tenn. 
Dabbs, Chas., Sgt...... 3 ..Memphis, Tenn. 


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Names and Rank Address 
Dacus, Walter C., Pvt........East Lake, Tenn. 


Dale, | Buell!) Wy.) 22Nite a cheiste ele stat Jamestown, Ind. 
Davis, Thos. E., Pvt.... ....-Memphis, Tenn. 
Dawkins, Henry, Mech.,........ .. Sturgis, Miss. 
Dilts, Marry EL; Pvt..n... ......-Memphis, Tenn. 


Dolan, John T., Jr., Cpl........Memphis, 


Dollahite, Wm. E., Cpl.....Water Valley, Miss. 
Duke, Jas. A., Jr., Pvt.........Memphis, Tenn. 
Ecklin, Wm. R., Pvt............- Wenows em. 
Hilert,. Chas: W..,./ Evita civisersvateens Memphis, Tenn, 
DOWIE, 1A CIE SRM Saab aol eric -Memphis, Tenn. 
Evans, Hilburn B., Pvt. 1Cl.....Freeland, N. C. 
TEVIS; eee) S52) Weng eek Witeza etoile lelelevereteee Portland, Tenn. 
Evans, Jas. D., Pvt....... ..- Magnolia, N. C. 
Hivans, (John C., Pvt. LC. 1... . Tinica, Miss. 
Hainleigh; Hall Bs, oPviteesenee ...Paris, Tenn. 
Faquin, Frank C., Pvt.... ...-Memphis, Tenn. 
Fentress, Mangum, Set......... Memphis, Tenn. 
Ferrell; Sas. Ts, Pvits dines sterershs Livingston, Tenn. 
Fielding, Hedley S., Sget........ Memphis, Tenn. 
Fischer, Lawrence H., Pvt. 1Cl.Memphis, Tenn. 
Blan; Tomy, We Vibes stoves vais coveltoteteoge .-Ripley, Tenn. 
Fleet, Chas. S., Pvt...... aides .Memphis, Tenn, 
Fox, Lawrence P., Cpl......... .Memphis, Tenn. 


Franks, Albert J., Pvt.... 
Frazier, Fred E., Pvt.... 


.Forrest City, Ark. 
o«. Castalia: ave, 


Freeman, Lyle I.......... 5 ...Harl, Ark. 
Gaither) WJiohin) (2. ees sens po we ce eiete nore ONE 
Gallina, Chas.. G ...Memphis, Tenn. 
Galloway, Homer T., “Pvt... Bic. Montevallo, Ala. 
Garbarini, Louis, Pvt Rie elles ci etateene Memphis, Tenn. 
Garland, Jefferson T., Pvt. 1Cl......Enid, Miss. 
Garrett; Hobie, ) Pvt... 2...)5 45a. West Fork, Tenn. 
Garvin, Clarence AG... .0.%.0 = sa eee Unknown 
Gerard, Myron A., Pvt. Peyagin ‘Howard Lake, Minn. 
Gerber; (Morris) Ge vite cn s\cjerecssteriede Memphis, Tenn. 
Goldsby, Preston H.................Luecy, Tenn. 
Goodman, Joseph H., Cpl.......Memphis, Tenn. 
Gorsuch, Earl B., Pvt....... ..Waynesboro, Pa. 
Grady) Jase Ee) SE Vit ciste everson oeeeeees+s UNKNOWN 
Grace) Manviny Pivitect. cis) sjaleisrenie Crawford, Tenn. 
Griffey, Edw. W., Pvt.........-. Memphis, Tenn. 
Groner, Geo. B., Pvt.........Sellingsgrove, Pa. 
Guess; lis Ce peta y-scver-) erepatenevere Memphis, Tenn. 
Guinn, Marvin A., Pvt...... ...Big Rock, Tenn, 
Handleman, Harry, Pvt. 1Cl....Memphis, Tenn. 
Hardison, Joseph A., Pvt....Wilmington, N. C. 
iarces,) Geom iE vit.ci-lel-isierssipietane .Crawford, Tenn. 
Harper: )Rred)/Gl, Pvt UChpin. ae Vinson, Okla. 
Masking Her nil alse eves lets mie eriete Memphis, Tenn. 
Hastey, Edw. Ww. Pvt. ......Memphis, Tenn. 
Hatfield, Forrest S., Cpl. .......Memphis, Tenn. 
Hawkins, Wm. O., Segt....... ..Memphis, Tenn. 
Hays, Andrew J., ist Set...... ...Mobile, Ala. 
Hedrick, Charlie, Cpl........... .. Vincent, Ark. 


Hellums, T. L., Sup. Sgt...Water Valley, Miss. 


Henneberger, Henry A.........Memphis, Tenn. 
Hobson, John E., Pvt..........Memphis, Tenn. 
Hollingshead, Toral, Pvt.......... Ripley, Tenn. 
Hooper, Hillis, Pvt. 1Cl........Memphis, Tenn. 
Hovis, Chas. T....... «+seee.....Memphis, Tenn. 
Huffman, Frank T....... +....+-... Unknown 


Hunter, Harry M., Pvt. ic. - . Memphis, Tenn. 
Irby, Edw. K.. . Unknown 
Jahn, Joseph O., Pvt. AS .. Waterton, Wis. 
Johnson, Jas. C., Cpl.. .....Memphis, Tenn. 
Johnson, Kenneth E., Pyt.. ....Memphis, Tenn. 
Johnson, Valorus M., Pvt. 1Cl...Memphis, Tenn. 
Joslin, Victor O., Pvt....Sharon Springs, Kans. 
Karnaski, Ailex, Pvt.........Fort Wayne, Ind. 
Kelly, Perey ...... ....Memphis, Tenn 
Keywood, Orbra A., Pvt. 1Cl...Bartlett, Tenn. 
King, Ferd S., Pvt. 1Cl.....Carruthersville, Mo. 


Kitchens, Boyes R....... een oe ialels ose /e 6 LOMO VEE 
Knott, Warren, Pvt........Crawfordsville, Ark. 
Kuntz) (Perey, Pvt. 1Cli os. 0. ..Raleigh, Tenn, 
Lambirth, Joseph M., Pvt..... -Memphis, Tenn. 


NR Ca Ta 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 
Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Law, Erwin W., Pvt........- Clarksville, Tenn. Saunders, Jas. L., Pvt..........Memphis, Tenn. 
Lawless, Rufus F., Pvt. 1Cl..Morristown, Tenn. Sayle, ATURE MO poo cowoeooad douaceoboe Unknown 
Leedy, Jesse, Cpl...... ......Bramville, W. Va. Bere ee Crarenee Wz. ++ +s sees SOOO oe eset las 
BEERS Gisude sa wt BE ae SBD ES EEEE: Sellers, Marvin E., Pvt......... Memphis, Tenn. 

Lewis, Sanders, Pvt..........Clarksville, Tenn. Shields, John C., Set Unk 

Re RUE sO A ape 8 ecg inieeranis ieee # eds Bera he sitet a atid ara - Unknown 
Light, Harry J., Mess Sgt HED Shuman, Stanley B., Shoe gi enne: W. Va. 
Lightfort, Robert D...........Memphis, Tenn. Siegfried, Harry P., Pvt........Orwicsburg, Pa. 
Lippi, Norman J., Sgt.... .-Memphis, Tenn. Sisks SHinmisiViNew) oir cee eee oe ...Unknown 
PAGEL Y! MVE. TS cs cc sleeisiets oun Memphis, Tenn, Smith, Charles H., Pvt. 1Cl.. ‘Collierville, Tenn. 
Loft, Wm. H., Pvt. 1Cl........Memphis, Tenn. Smith, Eugene J., Sgt... ..Memphis, Tenn. 
Loudon, Vernon L., Pvt........ Memphis, Tenn. Smith, Harry M., Sete esses Memphis, Tenn. 
Bortirell, Sass) Tas. sees ee es ..-Collierville, Tenn. Smith, Jessen Newac veces ciate .-Ripley, Miss. 
Manning, Frank B.......... cB aa meee Tenn. Smith, Marvell E., Cpl..... UBlytheville: Ark. 
iris. larry lis. ce ccislct sce se mrehayel take ..-Unknown Speer, Lawrence M............. Memphis, Tenn. 
Matthews, Dennie F., Sd’lr..... "Memphis, Tenn. Spellings) ‘Tobin Weise sew ate sieges . Unknown 
McClanahan, Earl E...... .....Memphis, Tenn. Stampley, Albert W........... Memphis, Tenn. 
UE ECO eS OS Et ete oid ow iclshe vais cic ininteseie e's Unknown Stampley, Elbert, Pvt.......... Memphis, Tenn. 
McNamara, Geo. C., Pvt. 1C1. .Dubuque, Iowa Standerfer, Wm. J., Pvt.......... Allenville, Ill. 
MeNeill, Allison J., Sgt.........-. Helena, Ark. Stratton, Daniel D., Cpl..... ...Memphis, Tenn. 
McOwen, Robert K., Lae S sche Memphis, Tenn. Surber, Hazel Jz) (Pvt... .. 265 Memphis, Tenn. 
MeRight, Edw. D., Pvt. 1Cl....... Mingo, Miss. mate; |Geor Wee yee) UCL sf eres aee Vandalia, Ill. 
URED Sere ASS Se Eee ns fal inveie'dyc tein sip teieve ey, quel Unknown Taylor) Bere be) ‘Cpl... . apse aketele Vandalia, Ill. 
Mitchell, Brantley, Pvt........ New Orleans, La Taylor. Rufus) My Cpl. 2s). ...Memphis, Tenn. 
BGR eM WANE Pi, URE TTS! fi. esis st ces Bells, Tenn. Teegarden, Jesse, Pvt. 1Cl.....Georgetown, Ky. 
Monaghan, Matt ...........- -Memphis, Tenn. Thompson; Louis C., Pvt.. 2.50.2. Fulton, Ky. 
Monteith, Jas. C., Pvt........Brunswick, Tenn. PHI bhioe PEIOWLE sis /2.o or eyctete ‘a as Sade cra eiiehe ..Unknown 
Moore, Cecil S., Pvt. 1Cl..... .-...Milan, Tenn. Tomlinson, Dan M., “pvt. NGI cc. aerteve's bene 
MouGress@nesticy f5.. Pvt. LCL ..wemphis, Tenn. 6 96) nsckimiscse ciacwcies .Stamping Ground, Ky. 
Morarity, Wm. J., Cpl.......- -.-Memphis, Tenn. TMOnFIS, WATDHONSE! ak dis /c\rcta eben sates came Mexico 
DVIS TSU Ae OEE, (IVE 3 aime) a) eho le\ole: alae ails Memphis, Tenn. mravyior, Vernon, (Pvt. UCM. acts se Teresita, Ky. 
Newman, Marshall G., Pvt.....Memphis, Tenn. Trinkle’) Mallard’. .)...:. <4 niche olereiereter ae Unknown 
Nicholson, Jesse H., Pvt.. -Miami, Okla. Tucker, Nolan C., Pvt....... Scott’s Hill, Tenn. 
Dain 14 GS ORR IS 6-0 eos eer oe Memphis, Tenn. Turner, Nim A., Pvt. 1Cl....Williamstown, Ky. 
BNGRE PNAS Vite LGIS sccm ee oe x Bells, Tenn. Tutwiler, Carlos B., Stable Sgt..Memphis, Tenn. 
Parker, Carlos H., Pvt......N. Stratford, N. H. Upton, Emory E., Pvt. 1Cl....Little Rock, Ark. 
Davis: ARAN, PVCs o cia o pica ain aie ...Memphis, Tenn. Marni!) Se Dp ee= 5 wioseveya ve ctohe eich slay Memphis, Tenn. 
Pepe) Panis Ea,, Pv tse cs ees «s siees Lucy, Tenn. WORT TI GO koe enseh.alet ofaPelster sVelore Memphis, Tenn. 
Beye) PIMPS: Woe cic siee ie oie a wie e wine ...Unknown WIGSED Vays EATEN cyareexkl sel oyarers ate ...Memphis, Tenn. 
Peaslee, Edw. E....... ADM Oe SOOM. REED Unknown Wiades “Riply:)) Cpl: . <i) ch. a<:< 00 biel Gave Whistler, Ala. 
Pennington, Roy C.......02.2.2-- Memphis, Tenn. Waener, Luther, Pvt. 1Cl....... Falmouth, Ky. 
Perkins, Wm. A........ ........Memphis, Tenn. Waener Peter P., “Pvtis.2is stk macs eee 
Beyron, vim) He Pvt... 2s Eroblywoods Benne!) yr Ry secleias niece cranes Alexandria Campbell, Ky. 
Phillips, Wm. G., Cpl....Grand Junction, Tenn. Waldauer, Abe D., Pvt......... Memphis, Tenn. 
Pickard, Russell, Pvt... 5.0: Burleson, Tenn. Wratker, Peter P., Pvt... .....-. Springville, Ill. 
Panner Julius, A. Pvt... <<< Whiteville, Tenn. Wally Tosephyr Avs iicic. oi Sesrsk Memphis, Tenn. 
Plexico, Samuel H., Set.. -Greenville, S. C. Wratlace; Brea tcc- oes ne8 Water Valley, Miss. 
Habared. Homer Res: ciicc « slic = <i> Memphis, Tenn. Wards) Josephs. io sictee Grand Junction, Tenn. 
Precise, Chalmer E., Pvt........ Palestine, Ark. Warren. ‘Pate, (Pvt, (EC ote eo Trussville, Ala. 
Presley, Wim. ., vt. EO. 2... Sardis, Miss. Watkins, Oscar L........ airaitohate a Memphis, Tenn. 
Purnell, Hunter C., Pvt........ Memphis, Tenn. Weir) Joseph: Ay.) UP vt c.¢) 20 vavclan Memphis, Tenn. 
GQualis: Bryant TB., Pvt... ....2s 33s Byhalia, Miss. Wieheeler | Pag (PVs oicjeyein crc winjeve onete s Glencoe, Ky. 
eave Albert) Wi, Evi LCi. oc. co... Sardis, Miss. Wilkes, Barnett S., Cpl....... Whiteville, Tenn. 
Reed, Duncan .......... Sideh seo Memphis, Tenn. Wilkes! Ob IN si. cicis oflcini steals Whiteville, Tenn. 
Reinshagen, Tony, Cpl.:.......Memphis, Tenn, Wa lices oP renbice: Peete ja <\+/ steals = Whiteville, Tenn. 
TENGEs AWONS SheCe Mood: 6 oocincienc Memphis, Tenn. Walley.) (Pavnls SBT eWEase saci cle siete Memphis, Tenn. 
Richardson, Marquis D......... Memphis, Tenn. Williams, Chas; J, Bvtis. 6... Cynthiana, Ky. 
Rifkin, Jake, Pvt........ Aaetey stale Memphis, Tenn. WV TT UNAS, CAS AUEp is 5 lone scstctaieis niche Memphis, Tenn. 
ENG COT OAS EP). eis cc) eiavalete. wine © ihe nie Unknown Williams, Malcolm O., ‘Cpl. -Charleston, Miss. 
Robinson, Richard V., Pvt. 1Cl.Memphis, Tenn. Williams, Rolah W., Pvt. 1Cl.. .Cynthiana, Ky. 
deodes>. Wm GC. Seti. cis. cece Petersburg, Tenn. Williamson, Noble E., Mech....Memphis, Tenn. 
Rezers; Hrank, Pvt. 1Cl..0..5.5..%;5 2 Army Willis. Johnnie R., Pvt......... Memphis, Tenn. 
Roper, Malcolm L., Pvt. 1Cl.. “Memphis, Tenn. Willis, Robert R., Pvt. 1Cl..... Memphis, Tenn. 
Roseberry, Geo. E., Pvt. 1Cl.. ..Kerrville, Tenn. Wilson, Earl H., Pvt..............Spratt, Okla. 
Roseberry, John W., Pvt. 1Cl...Kerrville, Tenn. Wilson, Howard, Pyvt........ Gaeta ene Sparta, Ky. 
Ross, Bruce..... otleeSamooe cme sac con si Unknown WilIsonh GR pS wite,-)einys mein iayatetoae Zanesville, Ohio 
SERS VOUS Geir wien os sya g) «lain wile ey al etala eka Unknown Wise, Charlie, Pvt. 1Cl...Stamping Ground, Ky. 
Sanders, Joseph R., “Pvt raters manlals Memphis, Tenn Wise, Houston W., Pvt. 1Cl..... Memphis, Tenn. 
Sanderson, Charlie Mw... 2.5.62. cee Unknown Wortham, Jase Rijs cee cle eraieieiee Memphis, Tenn. 
Santi, Clement, Cook.......... Memphis, Tenn. Weltemany rams, CAG J iiesstoyeie sien eialehelarrarsta Unknown 
MCECELY tee VE Vivsciscleie ale acess, Cornishvilie, Ky. Young, Chas. H., Pvt. 1Cl.......Lexington, Ky. 


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Rosters 


HISTORY OF, 1 14TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Battery B 


OFFICERS 


Names and Rank Address 
MacPhail. Leland S., Captain....Columbus, Ohio 
McGaughey, Jas. M., Capt...Chattanooga, Tenn 


Joyner, Guy E., Captain....... Memphis, Tenn. 
Gaines, John W., Jr., 1st Lt....Nashville, Tenn. 
Boone; Alex (W.; 1st) Dt 22. oe oe ces Unknown 
Callamy antl ig). Dist) Tati cs cies Knoxville, Tenn. 


Brown, Elsworth, ist Lt....Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Findley, Jefferson W., ist Lt...Dehlonega, Ga, 
Polk, Horace T., Nashville, Tenn. 
Trimby, Joe, Jr., 1st Lt.....Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Wilson, McDonald H., 1st Lt..Kansas City, Mo. 
Nolen, R. R., Unknown 
Maher, Thomas D., 2nd Lt....Kingsport, Tenn. 
Monaghan, Matt, 2nd Lt....... Memphis, Tenn. 


Trimble, Joseph, 2nd Lt..... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Alexander, Earl M., Pvt......... Dunlap, Tenn. 


Allen, William O., Pvt. 1Cl....Smithville, Tenn. 
Allison, George, Unknown 
Anderson, Walter L., Pvt...Chattanooga, Tenn. 


Ault, (Otto 7L.j Saul me misses erste Pikeville, Tenn. 
Aust, JObn CR Dres iS eGsclhie euepsie's Nashville, Tenn. 
Bacon, Geo. W:., Erbe wisiaie's wate os Bowie, Texas 
Baker, Benj. B., Sgt........ Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Bean,) Henry, PvthOd esis yale n visto Trion, Ga, 
Beek, (Wall, evi cLG esis se ercsvesvers St. Elmo, Tenn 
Bell, Wiley R., Pvt...... sictode i isiat tate aoe Unknown 
Belvin, Eather, Pvt......... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Bennett, Walter R., Pvt. 1Cl...-.. Sunburn, Pa. 
Bible, Bernard B., Sgt...... Chattanooga, Tenn, 
Blackburn, Wm. I., Cpl..... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Bobo; \Charles) As, Pyt,) UCL aos oe Taft, Tenn. 
Bolling, | Wyamt - Me Sethi. cecieiiers Nashville, Tenn. 
Bridgman, D. W., Pvt. 1Cl..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Brown, Barton B., Set......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Brown, Joseph C., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
IBIVANe, CTaSs Say) MEV cals wiepeie aielare titel stone Trion, Ga. 


Bryant, Mack A., Cpl...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Buchanan, Edward M., Pvt. 1Cl......... 

af eiehiavetieie ial ettaenalcaenatet teste Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Burke, Ezekiel F., Segt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Byerley, Walter, Pvt........ Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Byrne.) ames, P21 ir,) Cpl cect Nashville, Tenn. 
Cain, Charlie C., Pvt. 1Cl...Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Cagle, Wesley, Pvt......... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Camp, Leonel L., Pvt. 1Cl...Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Cantrell, Silas M., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Capley, Chester C., Pvt......... St. Elmo, Tenn. 
Card: Rex iG oe vite eics «cis suse cmeiarnete Soddy, Tenn. 
Cathy, sack iG (@plssa. co sie Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Christol, Robert F., Pvt. 1Cl......... Trion, Ga. 
Clark, Jasper L., Pvt........ Birmingham, Ala. 


Clements, Hearn W., Mech...Arkadelphia, Ark. 
Clendennon, John J., Cpl...Chattanooga, Tenn. 


Cligt, Carl GP viner aienlteire eet) uisfauateve Soddy, Tenn. 
Clokey, Marmaduke P., Cpl....Knoxyville, Tenn. 
Collins, Horace, Sgt. ....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Conner, Andrew J., Pvt. 1Cl....... Soddy, Tenn. 
Cornelius, ANIEUC.) hPvtieninrecenieeceiee Trion, Ga. 


Cornelius, Leland S., Sgt....Chattanooga, Tenn. 


Cornwell; sauthers Pity SUC erersicielsrelwiaie Unknown 
Craig, Wm. R., Ist Set... cs cee. Nashville, Tenn. 
Cruse, Clarence E., Pvt. 1Cl.Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Curry, (Samuel Ei, MP wits os cicvewaieip Wilksburg, Pa. 
Davis, 'Garlind, E!, Pvti. 0.2 wis Shepard, Tenn. 
Dake, Wm. B., Cpl...Pin Hook Landing, Tenn. 
Dalton, Arthur L., Pvt. 1Cl..Copper Hill, Tenn. 
‘Darty: lene UP VE acts cane eee Dayton, Tenn. 
Denkins, James, Pvt........ Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Dent, PMlavis: WT. Cooke. 12:5 scents Hixon, Tenn. 
Drydeni( Los: Ose evites Clone ereteu varies Unknown 


Edwards, Frank B., ist Sgt.. Fayetteville, Tenn. 
Eaker, Eugene M., Cpl...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Eaves, Robert E., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 


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Names and Rank Address 
Elrod, Walter B., Pvt......... Cleveland, Tenn. 
Elsea, William A., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
IMO, VON) on) EAWh sore fete ste ean Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Emerson, Wm. F., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Eneglish,, Edward Ji, BPivt.cw icneleeeie Unknown 
Evans, James R., Pvt.....\.. cess .....Unknown 


Ferguson, Hugh V., Pvt.....Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Ferguson, Nicholas J., Pvt. 1Cl..Pikeville, Tenn. 


Hord, (Wi... Hy ePvtun c cists iss snleiene ene Unknown 
Foor, Hilton Re, Pvt... <i.2.01eis avers enero Unknown 
Forrester, Floyd G., Pvt...N. Wilkesboro, N. C. 
Frank, Lawrence M., Pvt...... asta ates Unknown 
Freeman, Wm. B., Pvt. 1Cl...... +»... Unknown 
Ereeman; “Wim. P:,. Pvt.) LCliciemam eee + 

vain haunts olen Gime ete ators E. Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Mryor; wohny iT. (PV tia. y ..casiineiene +..+..Unknown 
Puller, Geslie Bi, Pyt: i. cic ms stereleaeeraneee Unknown 
Gardner,’ Robert.) J.,- Set... 0. <. useee Gurdon, Ark. 
Gardner, (Want) “ER Settee creteteieneee Henderson, Ky. 
Garret, Mark. G.,: Pvt... ). sm. Unknown 
Garrison, Wm. N., Cpl...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Gates, Ben J., Pvt.......... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Gattis, Claude J., Cpl....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Geiger, ‘Winfield H., Pvt. UCL. .2-haaneee 

nbs Latetojeila. esata teialial aire Rete ieee Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Gilliam, Kyle V., Pvt. 1Cl...Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Gilliam, Wetherstone O., Cpl............. 

Buakaisickafavevounietiohalsuetenaencdete Chattanooga, Tenn, 
Gilley, Jasper D., Pvt. 1Cl..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Gorganious, Oscar T., Pvt..... Rocky Mt., N. C. 
Gossett, Albert R., Pvt....... East Lake, Tenn. 
Gray, |Parker ‘Jz, Pvticn osc Dunlop, Tenn. 
Green, Dewey S., Pvt.........6+- Lafayette, Ga. 
Greenwood, John E., Pvt............. Unknown 
Grisham, Wm. L., Pvt. 1Cl..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Gross, Hobert, Pvt....... E. Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Guthrie, Julius H., Pvt. ....Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Hagwood, Dock A.) Pvitis <'« «eeleennne Trion, Ga. 
Haitheox,, Joh iC,,) Pvito ewes New Hill, N. C. 
Hale, Richard W., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Hatley, Gramt Ei Pivte seni Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Hall) ‘Bernard (Av) Pvt. LCi cae Unknown 
Hammond, Henry, Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Hammond, Vernon A., Cpl......... Chicago, Ill. 
Harris, Friel). Cp... . aces css es eee Trion, Ga. 
Hart Roy Ge, cbivitiesisitelainis Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Harwood, Ben Ws “Evitiisisn. als eee . Unknown 
Haswell, Claude, Cpl........ Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Hayes, Claude W.,, Pvte «o/s criss semineiela Unknown 
Hendren, (Joe: S!,) (Cpe: cos sie eteleuaie oie ...Unknown 
ick; Mian tier) SP vii. e ais eran Unknown 
Hilburn, Robert B., Cpl........ Tunnel Hill, Ga. 
Holbert, Robert “At, Pvt. . oc. spac seen Unknown 
Hooker, Wm. H., Pvt. 1Cl...... St. Elmo, Tenn. 
Hosse, Manlius S., Pvt......... Evansville, Ind. 
Ish bbe Muelle Noa AeA Amen oicor ms nec Unknown 
Hughes, Harry A., Pvt........ Cleveland, Tenn. 
Hughes, | lenny, (Vt, ie sic -iniein is Cleveland, Tenn. 
Hughes, Jack E., Pvt. 1Cl..... Cleveland, Tenn. 
de hob op scolydy GEA Tern SAIN LAOS v5 cust ....Unknown 
Hutcherson, Erastus L., Pvt.......... Unknown 
LV, FELONY, Drs) Se Vibe ie ilelotelcieisietere Marietta, N. C. 
Jackson; | Larbhierie cP Vt. sca c element Trion, Ga. 


Jackson, Willard J., Pvt....Chattanooga, Tenn. 


Jennings, Bernard A., Sgt..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Johnson, Eskar L., Cpl..... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Johnson, Fate W., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Johnson, Robert T., Sgt..... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Kenn) Arthiir Wes, Ee vibcniess wre layel wleta a alana Unknown 
King, Clarence, Pvt......... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Kirby, ‘lirnest))) vit. 5. sieve eintete tein letsise aie Unknown 
Knott) (Charhevd., GEV iretere cine slp cleisinlalts Unknown 
Lamon, Graham E., Pvt..... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Pane Geo: Be Cpl yas ste le nie eietavetalle mince awa Unknown 
Eamiers PEGG, ) ervitiaiesjoteis lete\s oteiernietete eieteiate Trion, Ga. _ 
Lebeck, Clarence, Pvt.......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Lee, Wm. V., Pvt. Ce iele ier teats Sequatchie, Tenn. 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 
Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Lefstrom, Paul J., Pvt......... McKeesport, Pa. Randall, Carleton H., Pvt. 1Cl........... 
Leroy, Gen. M., Ch. Mech..Chattanooga, Tenn. AeA anc nae ......Chattanooga, Tenn. 
S35 Heo or a OA a Ge es eg Soddy, Tenn. Rankin, Lora B., Pvt........-......2- Unknown 
Lewis, Earl J., Pvt. 1Cl..... Chattanooga, Tenn. Rape, MORGS) ale. JE Vitec poof atom erOee Trion, Ga. 
Lewis, Foster V., Cpl.......Chattanooga, Tenn. Reavis, John W., Pvt..... ..-.Fayetteville, Tenn. 
Link, Cord H., Sgt.........Chattanooga, Tenn. Records, Eugene, Pvt................ - Unknown 
= = Hees, Hays USE 6 o< 3 tece ene Fayetteville, Tenn. 
ewellyn, Richard, Pvt. 1Cl.......... ae Rees, Rufus! A. Gpl F tevill 
Spee iee aiute alae Share, Ae ciate ..Chattanooga, Tenn. ; ay AO aod has Pepe eke 
’ Rhodes) Walter’ Ss; <5... i55. Chattanooga, Tenn. 
March, Paul, Pvt. 1Cl............ Cowan, Tenn. iee)) BernarisAl,) Pyts. se eceies an ees Unknown 
Marcum, Henry L., Pvt.......Helenwood, Tenn. Riegler, Geo., Pvt.......... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Martin, Jas., Pvt...... .....Chattanooga, Tenn. Roberts, Wm. A., Pvt....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Massey, Marvin T., Pvt. 1Cl.Lookout Mt., Tenn. Robertson, Jas. V., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn 
Matheny, Wm. C., Cpl...... Chattanooga, Tenn. Robertson, Judson M., Pyt..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Mathis, Chas. F., Cook......Chattanooga, Tenn. Rogers, Eddie F., Pvt....... Chattanooga, Tenn 
Magherry. Wim S:, Pvt........6..60 Unknown ores. Onn EP wikts <b kook. cals ese eee Unknown 
McBride, Robert F., Cpl........... ...Unknown sterers, dohn To, Per'si.. 2.2... os Buntyn, Tenn. 
McCollum, Brady, Pvt. 1Cl...Birmingham, Ala, Sanders, Roscoe C., Pvt. 1Cl.Chattanooga, Tenn. 
McCollum, Clarence A., Sgt..... Pikeville, Tenn. pehenek; “Marl Vs Mech... 5 555,650.06. Unknown 
McCormick, Harry E., Sgt...Chattanooga, Tenn. Schneider, Joseph M., Pvt............ Unknown 
McDonough, Andy E., H’r’s.......Tyner, Tenn. Scoggins, Chas. R., Pvt..... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
McGee, Ben H., Pvt...... AEE OR re Unknown SCORE ClARCROEP RPE To: \s.c asia S eeae aia eae Unknown 
Mecrain, Walter S:, Pvt....5.....--.. Unknown neigier, John Hy) Pvt... .c 5.6... : St. Elmo, Tenn. 
McKissick, Tate, Mech...... Chattanooga, Tenn. Sertel, Abe E., Pvt....-.... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
McNabb, Bert, Cpl........ ..Chattanooga, Tenn. Shannon, Arvel S., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Meacham, Geo. O., Pvt. ....Chattanooga, Tenn. Sharpe. Alvie. Pryits j<22i Sess ease wee Unknown 
Mielke, Edw. J., Pvt...... Choe Ce Morgan, Minn Shepherd, Joe, Pvt..... ...-..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Milligen, Linder, Pvt. 1Cl............. Unknown Shubert, PWilly Pvte es osc ee Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Matchen. Jas, Pvt. 1Cl 2.22... 5. ce oe = Unknown MTMOns: SeOre EP VEL. Sa chis wistae em Caen Unknown 
Mitchell, Jesse M., Sgt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. Simmons, Wm. C., Pvt. 1Cl...Winchester, Tenn. 
Montgomery, Robert B., Pvt...... Bogato, Tenn. Smallwood, Clayton, Bgir........... Trion, Ga 
Wrere, CcnOs W., PVvtesc. wae ns Nashville, Tenn. Smith, Hugh B., Beglr....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Mogere. Wao. Fe, Set... 32.21. ..-Nashville, Tenn. Smith) Panl D7, Set. ...23. College Grove, Tenn. 
Moran. Will Ao) Pvt...) 5-2... - Nashville, Tenn Smitley, Geo., Pvt......... Kingston Ross, Ohio 
Moreland, Arthur D., Pvt...Chattanooga, Tenn pneiseny (Wane Ne Opler a. waists Cowan, Tenn. 
Moreland, Thos. W., Cpl....Chattanooga, Tenn. Southworth, Jerry W., Pvt. 1Cl....... Unknown 
Mormn Wred, Pvt). os... sans -.--..--- Unknown Spann, “Clyde W., Pvtii 2652s esteceneas Unknown 
Do Distasi 20g eee Rn Unknown Springer, John, Pvt. iCl....Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Morton, Jas. M., Pvt........ Chattanooga, Tenn. Sprouse, Henry S., Pvt..... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Moser, Roy, Pvt. 1Ci...... ...--Greenville, S. C. Stanley, Bruce E., Mech....... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Moulton, Thos. J., Sgt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. Stanton, Wim. R:, Set... 2. 2c Nashville, Tenn. 
Myers, Barl A., Pvt. 1Cl........ St. Paul, Minn. Steele, John W., Pvt........ Chattanooga, Tenn 
DEG Ac 9 es ee en rer Waubun, Minn. Stonecipher, Elmer R., Cpl..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Neal, Horace N., Cpl......... Winchester, Tenn. Strickler, David E., Pvt....... Fordtown, Tenn. 
Neal, Wm. W., Pvt........- Chattanooga, Tenn. Stimekiin, John Al Sete otic. on teres eran Unknown 
Neely, Roy E., Pvt.........-.- Stoneburg, Texas Sturgeon, Harvey, Pvt) .s) 9.5.0 .s0-0s6 Unknown 
Newell, Porter, Pvt......... Chattanooga, Tenn. Sutherland, Wallace L., Pvt........... Unknown 
Newman, Oscar W., Pvi.......Kmnoxville, Tenn. Swine, Wall (S.) Cple nase e cass Tullahoma, Tenn. 
Neuspickel, Lawrence R., Pvt......... Unknown Tanner, Albert R., Pvt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Nickerson, Orville A., Cpl.........---- Unknown Teachey, Ralph, Pvt... . 2020600000000 Unknown 
Nielson, Christian, Pvt............- Tyler, Minn. Toliver, John W., Sgt........ Beechgrove, Tenn 
O’Neal, Claude, Pvt......... Chattanooga, Tenn. Torbet, Oliver C., Pvt....... Ray Springs, Tenn. 
O’Rear, Harry C., Cook..E. Chattanooga, Tenn. Turner, Geo. H., Pvt....-..- Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Orton, Wilton F., Pvt....... Chattanooga, Tenn. Vaughn, Earl M., Pvt....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Owens, ——, Pvt...........-...--.--Unknown Mert. Wane GF Pytic non ae Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Palmer, Goldman B., Pvt. 1Cl.......-. < Walker, Freeman C., Pvt....... Riverstone, Ala. 
ed Rea mite Nace cine use es. Winchester, Tenn. Walker, Guy, Pvt..............Riverstone, Ala. 
Palmer, Julius J., Cpl........Winchester, Tenn. Wampler, Hugh C., Pvt.......... Bristol, Tenn. 
Park, Jas. E., Cpl....... ...-Chattanooga, Tenn. Warren, Robert E., Pvt.....Chattanooga, Tenn 
Payne, Chas. BR, Pvt. ...-.. Chattanooga, Tenn. White, Albert B., Cook........ Pikeville, Tenn. 
Payne, Henry F., Pvt...-- .-Chattanooga, Tenn. White, Homer G., Pvt.......... Pikeville, Tenn. 
Pennington, Roy T., Pvt.......Brookwood, Ala. White, Willard O., Pvt......... Pikeville, Tenn. 
Phillips, Roll H., Pvt.................Unknown White, Wm. A., Pvt. 1Cl....... Pikeville, Tenn. 
Plemmons, Wm. F., Pvt......... Decherd, Tenn. White, Wm. M., Pvt........ Chattanooga, Tenn. 
LECiES CLG I 2 2 SE ee ee era Unknown Wiempton, (CRAs. ) PeViteseios = lefeeisieatcin Unknown 
Poellarad, Win. M:, Cpl... .. =... McMinnville, Tenn. Wilhoyt, Clyde F., Pvt......Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Pomeroy, Edw. O., Pvt. 1Cl.Chattanooga, Tenn. Wilson, Van B., Cpl......... Fayetteville, Tenn. 
Prokeniek:, (Wwe) CPVe. «25.60 scan oe eens Unknown Womack, Herman, Pvt. 1Cl........... Unknown 
Quinn, Carl O., H’r’s.........East Lake, Tenn. Wood, Gus A., Jr., Sgt...... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
mRarmasey, John IN Pvinw 4.5 sew o see -s Unknown Wood, Ralph K., Cpl....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Ramsey, Wm. F., Cpl....... Chattanooga, Tenn. Worley, Price A., Pvt. 1Cl...Alton Park, Tenn. 


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Rosters 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Battery C 


OFFICERS 
Names and Rank Address 
Myers, Roy V., Major......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Amis, Reese T., Captain........ Franklin, Tenn. 
Brown, Enoch, Jr., Captain....Franklin, Tenn. 
Sweeney, E. B., Captain....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Harr) Beers: wast date oe Le Johnson City, Tenn. 


Gunby, John K., Salisbury, Md. 


McCollum, C. H., ist Lt.....Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Bags, (Clark Ne Vist dit... cn... Lebanon, Tenn. 
Polk, . Horace, dst Wit.: 2. sa. ss Nashville, Tenn. 
Brittain, David J., 1st Lt...... Maryville, Tenn. 
Milton, Geo. F., Jr., Ist Lt..Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Joyner, Guy Hy Ist Lt... 0. 2... Memphis, Tenn. 
Turner, Zebulon V., 2nd Lt....Lewisburg, Tenn. 
Myers, Frank B., 2nd Lt........ Syracuse, N. Y. 


Swenson, Harold E., 2nd Lt....Hartford, Conn. 
Cantrell, William H., 2nd Lt...Knoxville, Tenn. 
ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Adkins) Trashy ewe chiki teers lie mee Unknown 
Adlon) Med iRe | Pvt. ACI eektan Knoxville, Tenn. 
Akers, Wm. 'S., ‘Belrijnjcjenes Morristown, Tenn. 
Atkins, Frank S., Cpk.:.t...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Ault, Rufus W., Pvt... ss...) Rockwood, Tenn. 
Baird, Edgar A., Beglr......... Jacksboro, Tenn. 
Baker, Lewis M., Cpl..........- Knoxville, Tenn. 
Bales, Henry L.; Cpl...:..s5. Morristown, Tenn. 


Barlow, John H., Set...... Pennington Gap, Va. 
Barnett, Oliver O., Pvt........ Blytheville, Ark. 


Beasley, Lester E., Pvt......... Henning, Tenn. 
Bellamy, James B.) (Pvtiionee sce Yuma, Va. 
Bessellieu, Calbraith, Sgt...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Best; Hark Me CCpLiss te inn ctesmice Binfield, Tenn. 
Bicknell, Guilford O., Pvt. 1Cl.Maryville, Tenn. 
Bishop, Clarence A., Mech..... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Bishop, Lindsey J., Pvt..... San Francisco, Cal. 
Bivins, Wm., WARE Godan aoades Maryville, Tenn. 
Blakely, Arthur R., Pvt....... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Brakebill, Rankin L., Pvt...Madisonville, Tenn. 
Bolinger, Hugh E., Pvt....... LaFollette, Tenn. 
Bowman, John A., Pvt. 1Cl....Jacksboro, Tenn. 
Bradley, Edgar L., Sgt.....c+.e. Pittsburgh, Pa. 


Bradley, Ernest E., Cpl......... Corryton, Tenn. 
Brewer, Elmer, Pvt. 1Cl....... Maryville, Tenn. 
Brogdon, Harvey B., Pvt. 1Cl.. Knoxville, Tenn. 
Brown, (Guy 'S3) Seti. oid oe is Rural Retreat, Va. 
Bruchbocker, Geo. H., Pvt....Philadelphia, Pa. 


Bruner, Robert L., 1st Set..... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Buk) Tol ent Pita ctaaia eteiipietaroh ale Reagan, Tenn. 
Bunch, Raymond M., Segt...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Butler, Robert E., Pvt........ Kingsport, Tenn. 
Byrd; Roy Goss Sais % hte evs ovaleiste stare terete Savoy, Ky. 
iGamtrell yy Wands $s, IP V.tie s eicle seis Knoxville, Tenn. 
Carlton; {DHOS. 0. Pvt, |sa leis ehelove la seietane Unknown 
Carson, Mentor W., Cpl...... Manchester, Tenn. 
Caylor, Brack D., Pvt......... Sevierville, Tenn. 
Charles, Jas. W., Pvt........ Morristown, Tenn. 
Chittum, Harvey A., Pvt....... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Clarks; Tass, ss, BivGi kik bein! oreretalely Knoxville, Tenn. 
Cline, Raymond E., Pvt. 1Cl..Powell Sta., Tenn. 
GColling; John TE Pvitewss seater Memphis, Tenn. 
Comstock, Samuel L., Pvt...... Maryville, Tenn. 
Copeland, Chas. C., Pvt. 1Cl...Knoxville, Tenn. 
Davis) sugh Cl Pvt. Chicka. Knoxville, Tenn. 
Dari Baul Ger Ne pla iiisalte ives Knoxville, Tenn. 
Dawn, Jas. E., Pvt. 1Cl....Andersonville, Tenn. 
Dempsey, Clarence A., Sd’lr....... Augusta, Ga. 
Dempster, John M., Segt....... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Dempster, Robert B., Segt...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Doak, Samuel A., Cpl........ Greeneville, Tenn. 
Drinnon, Robert, Pvt.......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Dunbar) TAS Vitis aie a eysisialy choke Philadelphia, Pa. 
mithier, ee hilias, Evite aviv ws ol elele Masonville, R. I. 
Wiis, Hilmer, Cpl. ccc... Friendsville, Tenn. 
Ellis Roland /S.5) Pevibeis(ecsiee berries Kodak, Tenn. 
Epps, Thos. K., Pvt. 1Cl.....Morristown, Tenn. 


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Names and Rank Address 
Everett, Howell E., Sgt....Johnson City, Tenn. 


Evrard, Servais L., Mech...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Fasio,) “‘Gouis, YBetre tic sis eiwinie oleate Chicago, Ill. 
Feathers, Cecil A., Pvt........ Knoxville, Tenn. 
Figley, Claude M., Pvt....... Manchester, Tenn. 
Foster, Walter N., Cpl......... Knoxville, Tenn, 
Foust, Everett E., Mech....... Knoxville, Tenn 
Hox, “Alger i) Bee's cinta nlerete Dandridge, Tenn 
Gardner, John B., Pvt......... Maryville, Tenn. 
Galyean, Roy H., Pvt. 1Cl....Morristown, Tenn 
Gamble, Jas. T., Pvt. 1Cl...... Maryville, Tenn. 
Garner, John M., Pvt.......... Maryville, Tenn, 
Garrett, Douglas, H’r’s........ Maryville, Tenn. 
‘Gays. THOS: SPN ale © ereceieieioteiaeee Ripley, Tenn, 
Geiger, Ira J., Pvt...........5 .....mrlanger, Ky. 


Gelhot, Joseph J., Pvt.. .. Cincinnati, Ohio 
Gibbons, Donald R., Cpl....... Maryville, Tenn. 
Gilbert, John W., Sgt......:..005 Mascot, Tenn. 
Gilliam, Chas. C., Pvt. 1Cl..... Nashville, Tenn. 
Glenn, (Wass ME Bits s its aie e) apsy nets Bokchito, Okla. 


Goddard, Thos. W., Sgt........ Maryville, Tenn. 
Goodson) GC) Cl Pyt. ACie iia. Morristown, Tenn. 
Graco, Guiceippi, Pvt........... Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Gray, Robert S., Pvt......... Morristown, Tenn. 
Green, Calvin E., Pvt.........-- Concord, Tenn. 
Green, Elbert C., Pvt.........- Knoxville, Tenn. 
Griibimy SW ade, | Evite ai. 1oss isi ai'ovs) aisltehaler Clifton Hill, Mo, 
Gross, Geo. E., Pvt....... ....-Knoxville, Tenn. 
Grubb, Harl Ws eevitecy ise o siele Morristown, Tenn, 
Halliday, Ira L.; Pvt...) 0066 ccecisisieis Unknown 
Hamby, Blane T,, Pvt......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Hamby, Frank C., Cook....... Maryville, Tenn. 
Hamby, Maynard W., Pvt...... Maryville, Tenn. 
Hancock, Robert H., Cook.....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Hanlon, Roy E., Pvt........ aleusletereve Pawnee, Ill. 


Hannifin, Bernard J., Pvt......Kmnoxville, Tenn. 
Hardin, Matthews W., Sst..... Maryville, Tenn. 


Harris, Byard E., Mech........ Knoxville, Tenn. 
Massell, (Chias,) SPvite vies @ o's s/s eleletelnienalety Unknown 
ELAS, CMOS evita, GLC Lie als /aleeris Jonesboro, Tenn. 
Hays, Alexander P., Pvt.... csi. sus Dothan, Ala. 
ASHE MAW coche TEA We aig aii Gin Terre Haute, Ind. 
Hreifner, ‘Jas, R., Pvt. 1Clo.. 25). Knoxville, Tenn. 
Efelmig,) TieaSa) Diag) Wits bale) ajohe |e lede teeta Deatsville, Ala. 
Helton, Wm. B., Pvt. 1Cl....Morristown, Tenn. 
Henderlite, Hobart Mc., Pvt...Knoxville, Tenn. 
Henderson, Everett A., Pvt....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Henley, Rollo H., Pvt. 1Cl..... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Herndon, Edw. O., Pvt......... Greenville, S. C. 
Hicks, Joseph Bi seviti.bacieiekes Knoxville, Tenn. 
Hightower, Jas. F., Pvt. 1Cl........ Alamo, Ga. 
Hildreth, Thos. N., Pvt. 1Cl..... .. Melrose, Ala. 
Hill, Stanley (Vs Rivne ateintol minlaiots tele LaGrange, Ga. 
Hodge, Ernest T., Cpl...... Johnson City, Tenn. 
Hodges, Jas. S., Ist Sgt........ Knoxville, Tenn. 
Holder, Wengiy (Pv ite es biel elerslaie Maryville, Tenn. 
Eoleman, John 'B;;, Pvti ns i.) sic nls sibeaiere Unknown 
Holland; ‘Samuel’ (Bry) PP vitinek vc cle leinreiiene Unknown 
Hollis, Sampson (11, (Pvt.> <... «0+ elelels Dothan, Ga. 
Hopperton, | Fass, WPvbs ei aye ale os ers Walton, Ky. 
Howlett, Lewis E., Pvt.......... Springfield, Ill. 
Hudson, Murphy, Pvt........+-++20- Corinth, Ky. 
HMufiman, Roy, Pvt. st ci.jewc. =o Knoxville, Tenn. 


Hufstickler, Chester C., Pvt. Vessmer City, N. C. 
Hurley, N. T., Pvt. 1Cl..Pittsburg L’nd’g, Tenn. 
Camp Hill, Ala. 
Knoxville, Tenn. 


Hutson, Dewey T., Pvt........ Jacksboro, Tenn. 
Evatt; MESTUCe, Vives) italelelale .Morristown, Tenn. 
LRN ARE pine Un be neg solpese Oro HO Dic oti 5h Unknown 
Jackson, Geo. R., Sgt.......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
JACKSON; TAS. 5) EVE i ols alles nlor sini nie aiajeifolwis . Unknown 


Jackson, Samuel J., Pvt. 1Cl. Friendsville, Tenn. 
Jett, Earl H., Cook Carrollton, Ky. 
Johnson, Allen P., Pvt. 1Cl.... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Johnson, John B., Set......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Johnson, Roy §S., ist Sgt....... Knoxville, Tenn. 


Wong, Wonen Hi, Pvt. wea vee Knoxville, Tenn. 


Lyle, Robert B., Cpl....... Johnson City, Tenn. 
Mainiero, Leonardo, Pvt......... Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Majors alps Te. Vitis vee cise ce Knoxville, Tenn, 
AMC ay MPA PP Vitec tevee)ecivintels sie va Riverton, Ill. 
Mason, Archie E., Pvt...... Madisonville, Tenn. 


Massengill, Jas. B., Pvt. 1Cl......Chucky, Tenn. 
Mathis, awl By Pvt. UCI eins Burns, Tenn. 
McCampbell, Alvia P., Pvt..Richard City, Tenn. 
McClain, Norton E., Pvt......... Dresden, Tenn. 
McDonald, Samuel J., Pvt...... Newbern, Tenn. 
McGhee, Alex. W., Jr., Knoxville, Tenn. 
McGhee, Walter C., Pvt. 1Cl..Washington, D. C. 
McGinley, Walter R., Pvt. 1Cl..Maryville, Tenn. 
Miller, Clarence F., Pvt. 1Cl...Knoxville, Tenn. 
Miller, Oliver E., Pvt. 1Cl.....Knoxville, Tenn. 


VOT LFS ed OM TU Ura EW: /a\ a vatiel elle eve’ c) llahullelsiiogalens Unknown 
Minnis, Terry W., Pvt. 1Cl.....Knoxville, Tenn 
Monday, Fred T., Pvt.......... Knoxville, Tenn 
Monday, Samuel, Pvt.......... Knoxville, Tenn 
Monday, Tine, Pvt.........+--s Knoxville, Tenn 
Moore, Geo. E., Sgt......... Johnson City, Tenn 
Morgan, Geo. R., Pvt.........- Knoxville, Tenn 
' Morris, Norman B., Pvt.....Chattanooga, Tenn 
Morton, Verless J., Cook............ Dalton, Ga 
Moser, Grover R., Pvt. 1Cl.....Knoxville, Tenn 
Mundy, Henry A., Pvt, 1Cl.....Knoxville, Tenn 
Mundy, Saunders B., Pvt...... Knoxville, Tenn 
Murrin, Clarence H., H’r’s.Jefferson City, Tenn 
Myers, Ezra, Di, Cpl... .cic es = Maryville, Tenn 
Myers, Thos. B., Pvt........... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Newman, Oscar W., Sgt....... Knoxville, Tenn 
Noe, Lewis S., Sgt.....--..6. Morristown, Tenn 
Nunn Wim. 70., Jr, Cpl... Knoxville, Tenn 
Nuchols, Perry M., Pvt........ Maryville, Tenn 
Palmer, Rubert, Cpl......... .. Knoxville, Tenn 
Parker, Hobart C., Pvt........ Knoxville, Tenn 
Parker, Robert I., Pvt. 1Cl....Knoxville, Tenn, 
Patton, Landon R., Cpl...Jefferson City, Tenn 
Paylor, Wan, :, Pvt: 1Cl...... Knoxville, Tenn 
Persinger, David E., Pvt...... Kingsport, Tenn 
Piper, Albert M., Cpl........Greeneville, Tenn 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 
Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Jones, Chester, Pvt. ....-esseeeee Lexington, Ky. Piper, Wilbur W., Sgt....... Greeneville, Tenn. 
MUOMUGS GOs yi bavileierasa ale eratelial’e)(arars) \'eiiel wie shia Paris, Ky. SEDUD Up SVU ADEN Ary Posi Ustsins sie iepal aatebel eve Columbia, S. C. 
‘Jones, John, Pvt. 0 ccc OOo Knoxville, Tenn, Prositt; ‘Chas. Ay. Wev tile ciclele asic Knoxville, Tenn. 
Jones, Walter, Pvt... ..csssseccecrens Paris, Ky. Promitt,) John (Gi, Pyvtin. uses. Knoxville, Tenn. 
PNG VWAILOM ANT. ea ee steiaie: sjaislle oie Springfield, Ill. Promitt, Robert, "T.)) Pvitis sce. Knoxville, Tenn. 
Koehler, Chas. B., Pvt........ Brownstown, Ill. Query, Harley C., Cpl......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Kramer, Everett F., Pvt........ Springfield, fll. Ramsey, Samuel G., Pvt. 1Cl..Knoxville, Tenn, 
Kreuger, August J., Pvt.......... Riverton, Ill. Ray, Thosa Net. LCi. os. Straw Plains, Tenn. 
Kriscunas, Youzas, Pvt.......... Wright, Minn. Richards, Lonie C., Mech.....Bluff City, Tenn. 
ASS UUs EM ONUT Vrot Eas) (TM Gala)le) «ol st oie ni uijetr Alexandria, Ky. Ritter, Harry G., Pvt 1Cl...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Lacy, Wm. R., Cpl......... Johnson City, Tenn. Rosenbaum, Warery, Pyt............. Unknown 
Lanegfield, Samuel F., Pvt....... Springfield, Ill. Rutherford, Raymond G., Pvt.. Knoxville, Tenn 
PGR EAI) Wis) LAV te he ciloin eel wileles a Louisville, Ky. Schettler, Edw. A., Pvt. 1Cl....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Lee, Sampson D., Pvt. 1Cl.....Ebeneezer, Tenn. Scott, Jasob by th. LOM iets elas Knoxville, Tenn 
Lewis, Byron S., Pvt. 1Cl...... Knoxville, Tenn. Sheehan, Morgan W., Cpl...... Knoxville, Tenn 
Lewis, Walter A., Pvt.......... Worthville, Ky. Shelton, Robert, H’r’s......... Cleveland, Tenn 
Lichlyter, Paul E., Pvt. 1Cl...Dandridge, Tenn. Sheridan, Wm. G., Segt......... Knoxville, Tenn 
illard, (Chas. 5 Pvties . s ciee «ie ss Saunders, Ky. Shipley, Leslie I., Pvt......... Jonesboro, Tenn. 
Mink) Cord El, SEtee peice a Chattanooga, Tenn. Shipley, Lester A., Set. ...Jonesboro, Tenn 
Lisembee, Leslie D., Pvt........+s00. Unknown SIS EMD O rts AS Eb .salal aaycvcusi ohn « Knoxville, Tenn 
Littlefield, Arthur N., Segt.....Knoxville, Tenn. Smiley; Geo. (Gl) Pvt. cee cee Knoxville, Tenn. 
Lloyd, Raymond E., Pvt....... Kansas City, Mo. SSherhlaoy| Weiser IDE, TEAC aon Oa oO bein Unknown 
Logan, Howard J., Pvt. 1Cl.... Knoxville, Tenn. Smith, Carse E., Pvt........... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Smith, Maxwell T., Pvt. 1Cl..Morristown, Tenn, 
Smith; Olivier, | Pvite. se es sce ae Lexington, Tenn. 
Siosuljaly aaenhollop ta kb cdl heen 6 esioiioe oc Greenville, S. C. 
Solomon, Ples J., Cpl.......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Spurgeon, Lavater V., Pvt............ Unknown 
Stephens, Vivian L., Mech..... Knoxville, Tenn. 
SPOKES MOLT Wy) ELViCole\ay steelers Knoxville, Tenn. 
Strain Wass Os VP Vite eee ala\siels Morristown, Tenn. 


Bluefield, W. Va. 
Sa letlavene LaFollette, Tenn. 
Roaring Springs, Pa. 
Dandridge, Tenn. 


Suiter, Carlos E., Cpl......... 
Summitt, John W., Pvt 
Snyder, Paul, 
Taylor, Jesse L., Pvt. 1Cl..... 
Tedtord, Jas. H., Pvt... .\elee oe! Wellsville, Tenn. 
Thomas), Warren) Hy, Pvitiiceiciese)m sib wieleie York, Pa. 
Thompson, Harl E., Pvt....... Maryville, Tenn. 
Thomson, Chas. H., Pvt. 1Cl..Los Angeles, Cal. . 


Tilley, Chalmers H., Pvt. 1Cl..Jonesboro, Tenn. 
FNORVESH MGCL Ee sy ai Gayetene rat eliaraiaiel Wietlailey ai York, Pa. 
PPVIMANY SOM Sey) LEW Eeate wie) « Johnson City, Tenn. 
Myer Walters, USty SEti. cena Williamsburg, Ky. 
Walker, Leslie G., Sgt......... Maryville, Tenn. 
Walker, Roy D., Cook.. Knoxville, Tenn. 
Wallace) Dorio, Cook... 2 .)..5.% Corryton, Tenn. 
Waterhouse, James, Cpl....... Cleveland, Tenn. 
Watson, Howard P., ist Sgt....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Watson, Roney H., Pvt...... Morristown. Tenn. 
Webb, Rowan §S., Sgt......0+6. Knoxville, Tenn. 
Wells, Gordon R., Cpl......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
West, Jesse G., Pvt............ Knoxville, Tenn. 
Wetherby, Carrick W., Sgt..Johnson City, Tenn. 
Whelahan, Patrick J., Sgt..... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Whitaker, Arthur P., Sgt...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Williams, Lee R., Pvt. 1Cl...Morristown, Tenn. 
Wilson, Charlie, Pvt........... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Wilson, Charley, Pvt. 1Cl...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Wilson, Eugene M., Pvt. 1Cl...Knoxville, Tenn. 
Windham, Samuel H., Pvt........ Laurel, Miss. 
Wright, Jas. M., Pvt. 1Cl.....LaFollette, Tenn. 
Wright, Robert W., Sgt.....Madisonville, Tenn. 
Younce, Oscar E., Sgt....... Russellville, Tenn. 
Young, Arthur E., Cpl......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Young, John M., Pvt..........Knoxville, Tenn. 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Battery D 


Rosters 
OFFICERS 
Names and Rank Address 

Caraway, Leon, Captain...... Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Jackson, Nat B., Captain...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Long, Mitchell, Captain.. ..-Pulaski, Tenn. 
Bell, Robert H., ist Lt....... Springfield, Tenn. 
Boynton, Kellogg H., ist Lt....Keysville, N. Y. 
Boone, Alex M., ist Lt....... Philadelphia, Pa. 
Browning, G. W., ist Lt....Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Caldwell}i mil, fist) ats a. cite sas crore Paris, Tenn. 
Coles iPhilipisP feast elites aiateleys Bridgeport, Me. 


Elliott, William Y., 1st Lt.... 
Moses, James W., ist Lt.... 


. Nashville, Tenn. 
-Big Sandy, Tenn. 


Short) OWNS sist alateergieelstelea Baltimore, Md. 
Wilson, McDonald H., 1st Lt..Kansas City, Mo. 
Demand) U.S.) cana ite = Warrensburg, Mo. 
Hart, Martyn W., 2nd Lt.....Glen Road, N. J. 
Kelly, Chas. F., 2nd Lt.:.........Kodak, Tenn. 


McCollum, Clarence H., 2nd Lt.Pikeville, Tenn. 
Neely, Jas. C., 2nd Lt.... .. Bellevue, Texas 


Pointer, Thos. W., 2nd Lt...... Franklin, Tenn. 
Rainey, L. D., 2nd Lt..... Cottage Grove, Tenn. 
Richards) Walsh S25) 2a wectaetelie ake ate hale Unknown 


Sharp, John B., 2nd Lt.........Columbia, Tenn. 


ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Acuff, Allen V., Pvt. 1Cl...Powder Spgs., Tenn. 


Adams Hamls iPvt:) Creer aoeyelatecle Murray, Ky. 
Aden, Liowerye uns, PV Ga. celabisccaiiere Paris, Tenn. 
Allred, Burgess C., Pvt.....Franklinville, N. C. 
Atehison;, -Carlisle;)) “Setio.)..o tai cits Erin, Tenn, 
Baker, Joe B., Pvt...... ....Huntingdon, Tenn 
Ballard, \dohm, iDs) VE Vviteen ete kere eee Paris, Tenn. 
Barber.) Pap iW, ewer erecta cece Paris, Tenn. 
Barcroft, Tommie, Cpl.... Brownsville, Tenn. 
Barnes, Raymond E., Pvt..... Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Begley: Joshua sn. Vitse. ete eee Unknown 
Blackwood, Quitman C., Pvt....... Paris, Tenn. 


Bomar, Joe sh, (Ve. aC sma 
Boring; Jas. O2) Wevte- as ae 


Bowden, Robert L., Pvt............ Paris, Tenn. 
Bowden, Robert Lee, Pvt..Cottage Grove, Tenn. 
Boy ce; tsaac) pes, sey bai Gl.) vs omens Paris, Tenn. 
Boyce, John F., Stable Set......... Paris, Tenn. 
Brandt, Clyde M., Cpl.Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pa. 
Bripance; (Silvis) SP vise a:s sets lere datas Trenton, Tenn. 
Broach) 'Cleabis! (Gey Cpls caste caine Murray, Ky. 
Brown, |) Dornis Hy Evite. scieieiee Cleveland, Tenn. 
Browning, John L., Pvt. 1Cl...... » Paris, Tenn. 
Browning, Walter W., Pvt. 1Cl....Newport, Ky. 


Bruce; Roma We, COME ye ieee sare Paris, Tenn. 
Bryant, Morgan G., Pvt.....Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Bucy, John B., Pvt. 1Cl.......Buchanan, Tenn. 


Bucy Willies ss. uGk witae nas lei Buchanan, Tenn. 
Burks; wRoOperte iO.) VE vibacwciehebe ares Jackson, Tenn. 
Burney, Jesse C., Pvt......... Clarksville, Tenn. 
Burrow, Ocie C., Pvt. 1Cl...... Trezevant, Tenn. 
Byrn, Hillsman, Pvt. 1Cl.....Big Sandy, Tenn. 


Gaillis; “Vernon; )! Pit. LCi cites Trenton, Tenn. 
Campbell, Burney H., Pvt. 1Cl.....Paris, Tenn. 
Campbell, Homar B., H. S...Springville, Tenn. 


Carnian Wine Ce Pe SSt as = ieiele«/eietele Camden, Tenn. 
Carpenter, Lewis T., Pvt........ Jackson, Tenn. 
Chenoweth, Geo. C., Pvt......Springville, Tenn. 
Chipman: Joseph (Bh vtec ers. Ripley, Tenn. 
Churchwell, Clyde, Pvt...... Huntingdon, Tenn, 
Churchwell, Jamie W., Pvt..Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Claxton, James E., Pvt........ Whitlock, Tenn. 
Clayton, Grover C., Pvt...... ie eaiieipe Hazel, Ky. 
Cobb, Herman, Pvt. 1Cl............ Paris, Tenn. 
Coleman, Wilgar P., Cpl........ Jackson, Tenn. 
CWOOI ANA IE Vibe ais taney state ste talatorene Whiteville, Tenn. 
Cooper, VEheOs Evite wis eieeraie aicts ......Unknown 
Cox, Earlie H., Pvt. ‘4ci.. ..Hollow Rock, Tenn. 
Cox AWANE | Wiss) EN Ea sieve beim afelotes « Brownsville, Tenn. 
Craney, Albert L., Pvt........ Big Sandy, Tenn. 


Cresswell, Robt: E., Pvt.. .Sevierville, Tenn. 


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Names and Rank Address 
Crow, Henry, Sd’lr. ............Jackson, Tenn. 


Curran, Patrick J.) “Pyt.....0 Brookline, Mass. 
Davis; Won We; sPvts less ....-Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Davidson, Charlie, Pvt. ./25). cen Trenton, Tenn. 
Davidson, Guy, Cpl..............Trenton, Tenn. 


Davidson, Thos. P., Pvt. 1Cl.......Paris, Tenn. 
De Carli, Angelo, Pvt. 1Cl........Staunton, Ill. 
De Carli, John, Pvt. 1Cl..........Staunton, iii, 
Deffenbaugh, Porter, Cpl.........Maconpin, Ill. 
Derrington, Henry, Pvt. 1Cl....Mansfield, Tenn. 
Devaney, Martin J., Pvt....... Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dinwiddie, Philip R., Pvt. 1Cl......Paris, Tenn. 
Doherty, Claude L., Pvt. 1Cl..Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Donahue, s Wm. | Ce Piles steleieie tai ...Carbon, Pa. 
Edwards, H. W., Pvt......Cottage Grove, Tenn. 
Elliott, Edwin, Pvt...........5=5 <CS@yMmeilenmaite 
Ellis, Ed R., Cpl.........Cottage Grove, Tenn. 


Ellis, Fred, Pvt........ ...Cottage Grove, Tenn... 
Evans, Geo. P., 1st Set....... Union City, Tenn. 
Hainleish, Hall Bs |) PVte o..seene ..Paris, Tenn. 


Farmer, Wm. A., Pvt. 1Cl....Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Fetrow, Clarence E., Pvt........Harrisburg, Pa. 
Ferreter, James, Pvt. 1Cl...Brownsville, Tenn. 


Hiteh, )Jierny C2, Cplicia. san .-.- Springville, Tenn. 
Fitchpatrick, Chas., Pvt. 1Cl..Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Pileet;\ (Chas: (S.)) Cplinniuis sieves gigs eo Tenn. 
Forsythe, Claud N., Cpl...... -Milan, Tenn. 
Moxa Harvey, bvitesaiiern sae ayaetetiss ....Unknown 
Hrenehy Wnt. | Cs (SStieciacee cae Big. Sandy, Tenn. 
Futrell, Chesley O., Pvt. 1Cl.Brown’s Grove, Ky. 
Gaday,) (Clifton) (Pvtonnc. csc Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Gallardy, John C., Pvt. 1Cl....... Cambria, Pa. 


Galloway, Horace E., Pvt. 1Cl.Trezevant, Tenn. 
Garrett, Juhn D., Pvt. 1Cl.....McKenzie, Tenn. 


Garylors WMV: ee OD on seieieietciotiens ...Paris, Tenn. 
Gibson, Hugh A., Cpl..........0««jEnVenromyn iis 
Goeke, | Eidiwé 'G.,. Pvtin.)s cies cits coi Dayton, Ky. 
Goodwin, John H., Cpl...... ....Trenton, Tenn. 
Gosney, Edgar, Pvt. 2Cl.... 2. soe -Butler, Ky. 
Green), "Bhos) (Bs) Seite. emuicls ci Huntingdon, Tenn. 


Greenhouse, Morris, Pvt....New Bedford, Mass. 
Guill, Ephriam L., Pvt. 1Cl....McKenzie, Tenn. 


Guthrie, Willie F., Pvt........ -Sharpsburg, Ky. 
Hailey, Hirnest UNi; SP vt.c oceania - Unknown 
Hamer, Elvis, Pvt ire shausanate seoeeees erin, Denne 
Hamer, Robert, Pvt. 1Cl..........; .Erin, Tenn. 
Nelehaoneaem Dhasigrd Gall Ja\idra Shine iG ...Trenton, Tenn. 
Hargis, Elgie R., Pvt.. Soubac ie ocak ...Camden, Tenn. 
Hargis, Lee F., Pvt. 1Cl.........Camden, Tenn. 
Harland, Paul M., Set...... .....dackson, Tenn. 
Harrington, Robert C., Sgt...Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Harrison, Joseph, Pvt..............Pawnee, IIl. 
Hants: SPonter. sevit-e sets) = = se eeeeees EP ATIS, emily 
Hartley, Ulmont A., Pvt.. .....-Camden, Tenn. 


Hatley.) iar vibe teem cls elersl aati -Camden, Tenn. 
Haynes, Herbert E., Pvt. 1Cl.Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Henson, Roy O., Pvt..........Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Herndon, Roger R., Pvt. 1Cl........Eva, Tenn. 
Herring, Edwin, Pvt. 1Cl.... Brownsville, Tenn. 
Herron, Robert E., Cpl.........- Trenton, Tenn. 
Hicks, Cuterill J., Pvt...... . Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Hicks, Theron M., Pvt........ Big Sandy, Tenn. 


Hickman, Forney W., Pvt......Sylacauga, Ala. 
Holland, Eugene, Pvt...... - 


Hollands 7 Jonn (J-.) Gpciei-'- ol ..Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Hoppers, Gus, Pvt...... ee horses Rehetaners Halls, Tenn. 
Howell, Gregory, Cpl........ Brownsville, Tenn. 
Hunt, Cedric A., Pvt. 1Cl....... Jackson, Tenn. 
Hunter, Clyde H., Sgt..... .....Franklin, Tenn. 
Hurst, Henry H., Prt.......... ..-Munford, Ala. 
TSH hom prone DOR ei bi SA OE & nels 2G Paris, Tenn. 
Tneham), (Wms) PVE eels ine ne) eialehele Slayden, Tenn. 
James, Rhonald E., Pvt....... ..Langdale, Ala. 
Danes, (Wd? WE vi; sp lalalelniee aim alel vate tolste Mayfield, Ky. 
Jenkins, Benj. V., Mech.....Huntingdon,. Tenn. 
Jones, Elvis N., H’r’s........ Cheep Hill, Tenn. 
gones) Guilford) (Cpl. i. eisjen osetia cis Paris, Tenn. 


-Camden, Tenn. . 


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HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 
Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Johnson, Ernest, Pvt...............Thayer, IIl. Redden, Leiper H., Pvt........Mansfield, Tenn. 
Jordan, Robert, Pvt...........Pittsburg, N. C. Redden, Louis C., Pvt........Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Kee, Virgil H., Cpl..........Huntingdon, Tenn. Rhodes, Osa E., Pvt. 1Cl.....Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Kennedy, Ross, Pvt................... Unknown Richardson, Louis, Cpl.............Erin, Tenn 
Kesterson, Presley, Pvt............Paris, Tenn. Ridin gery (Tasty weVitsieles sve eel ele «lanes ...Paris, Tenn. 
Mimiprell, Alex.) Pvt..c.sess. ...-Jackson, Tenn, Riggs, Joseph W., Cpl...... . Springville, Tenn. 
SIP les ey CD erat a jer ence Feel slain Lrencton, ‘Lenn, Rison, Jasper E., Cpl......... .....Paris, Tenn. 
Kirk, Clinnard, Pvt.........Huntingdon, Tenn. Robertson, Campbell, Pvt........ Jackson, Tenn. 
Kirk, LeRoy, Pvt............Huntingdon, Tenn. Rose, Arthur S., Supply Sgt..Brownsville, Tenn. 
Kuhn, LeRoy, Pvt... .cjeceers Jacksonville, Fla. Rowlett, Robert, 1st Sgt.........Louisville, Ky. 
Lampley, John P., Pvt........Big Sandy, Tenn. Rust, An phrsiOSplie cease Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Lankford, Richard, Pvt. 1Cl.Brownsville, Tenn, Rust, Clifford, Pvt. 1Cl......Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Lashlee, Herschel, Sgt..........- Camden, Tenn. Rust, Robert E., Pvt....... ...Trezevant, Tenn. 
‘Layne, Arthur L., Pyt........ Tracy City, Tenn. Ryan, Lawrence, Pvt. 1Cl....Brownsville, Tenn. 
Lewis, John, Cpl...... siidieyd siete <a enton.. Tenn, Satterwhite, Lee B., Cpl...... Rie ounys Erin, Tenn. 
Lewis, Virgle, Pvt...... tetebetetsis t= -Camden, Tenn. Sawelliy) Jase WE pe ha aie viele ts cists Nashville, Tenn. 
Lilly, Polie, Pvt...............Tallahassee, Ala. Sawyers, Gordon W., Pvt......... Mason, Tenn 
Livingston, Robt. S., Pvt......Jacksonville, Fla. Sayville; jdulius Byy) Pvt. «se. ...Memphis, Tenn. 
Long, Lindsay R., Pvt...........Roxboro, N. C. Seward, Irving W., Pyt.........Pittsburg, Miss. 
ovine. Alex, M.; Pvt. 1Cl,.>......bParis, Tenn, Sharpe; PAVeEry ji eivite. se clesia'els siele siete Duff, Tenn. 
Maahs, Gustave J., Pvt.......Philadelphia, Pa. Sloper Viennese) Site el are etniette Jackson, Tenn. 
Mahaffey, Ora, Pvt.........2++s ..Illiopolis, Ill. Sillsy Abby viva seetel-) «jolelay oererers Brownsville, Tenn. 
Mallard, Ellis, Pvt...........Huntingdon, Tenn. Sills; Wakes UP Vt... one wietareteys Brownsville, Tenn. 
Marchbanks, Ruel, Pvt..........Camdeu, Tenn. Smith, Alonzo, Pvt....... ++.....-Camden, Tenn. 
Marler, Lester M., Pvt.........-. Dayton, Tenn. Sri aA ace Ei JP vt... sieace ea ects miele Unknown 
Marrs, Willie D., Pvt......... Springville, Tenn. Smith, Clarence E., Mech...... McKenzie, Tenn. 
McClurg, Willie, Pvt............. Roanoke, Ala. Smith) \GeojDe) Settee ssc. eke Springville, Tenn. 
McHugh, Thos. L., Mech........... Paris, Tenn. Smith Hilliard CM iP vtec seus aes Bassett, Ark. 
McKelvy, Frank V., Cpl..... Huntingdon, Tenn. BDA Geo eV luis, ellen la leiulyisioieiareonte Paris, Tenn. 
McWilliams, Elbert, Pvt..Saskatchewan, Canada Spaulding, Eugene, Mech.......... Paris, Tenn 
Melton, Royal, Pvt. 1Cl....... Big Sandy, Tenn. Spellings, John T., Pvt. 1Cl........ Milan, Tenn 
Miernitt, i. Vey SeVit. LCR. sis Huntingdon, Tenn. Stewart.) Carlow. Set. acta accel Trenton, Tenn 
Michaux, Arthur C., Pvticw.c ss. .Paris, Tenn. Stewart, Thos., Pvt. 1Cl....... Whiteville, Tenn 
Montgomery, Ethel, Pvt.......Nashville, Tenn. Strother, Cecil, Pvt....... Cottage Grove, Tenn 
Moody, Arty GC. Pvt... ccc.cs Buchanan, Tenn. Stuart, Donovan, Ch. Mech..Brownsville, Tenn 
Moody, John N., Pvt.......... ...--Paris, Tenn. Suddreth, Jay M., Sgt.......0..2.. Lenoir, N. C 
Moody, John W., Sgt.........- Buchanan, Tenn. Sullivan, Belton O., Sgt......... Jackson, Tenn 
Moore, Rawlins, Cpl.......... Dancyville, Tenn, Taylor erin Ge iPivite lie ciel leslalaeienctal sions Paris, Tenn. 
Moran, Elbert, Pvt............... ..Erin, Tenn. Teague, Geo. J., Pvt.......... Philadelphia, Pa. 
Moye, Virgil E., Pvt. 1Cl...Fountainhead, Tenn. Tharpe, Robert H., Sgt............ Paris, Tenn. 
Nanney, Wesley C., Pvt. 1Cl....... Paris, Tenn. Mhiomas es ELOnace, se vitels 2 siesta siereleiele Milan, Tenn. 
Nelson, John C., Pvt. 1Cl..........Paris, Tenn. Travis, Robert A., Mess Sgegt....... Paris, Tenn. 
Nichols, Douglas, Pvt.....Cottage Grove, Tenn. Vantreese, Ellis B., Sgt....... ..Jackson, Tenn. 
Nichols; Marl W., Set.......... . Jackson, Tenn. Vermallen, Louis C., Pvt. 1Cl...New Baden, Ill. 
Wonriss Wa. i, Cook. ...... Huntingdon, Tenn. Wagner, Marion M., Pvt...... Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Oliver, Newman W., Cpl........... Paris, Tenn. Walters, Irby R., Pvt. 1Cl....Springville, Tenn. 
Owen, Benj. H., Cook....... ...Jackson, Tenn. MVEWUENR Nana TRB eins dons Springville, Tenn. 
Palmer, Ezra E., Pvt....... Hollow Rock, Tenn. Warren, John, Pvt........-0- 2... Paris, Tenn. 
Parr, Osear C,, Stable Sgt....... Trenton, Tenn. Watson, Geo. W., Cpl........ Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Phelan, Leslie H., Pvt......... ..Trenton, Tenn. Wheatley, Richard F., Pvt........ Faxon, Tenn. 
Pflueger, Herbert, Pvt. 1Cl....Buchanan, Tenn. Whitaker, DeHstis, Pvt...... Huntingdon, Tenn. 
Piercey Chass) Ti... Pvite sic s mice ocicis cues Paris, Tenn. Waeeins, pihelmiaiS 2 SPV. tiaieilisle| sere Paris, Tenn. 
Pierce, DeWitt, Pvt. 1Cl...... Big Sandy, Tenn. Wiges, Norman §., Sgt..........Jackson, Tenn. 
Pierce, Omar J., Pvt. 1Cl.......... Paris, Tenn. Williams, Hugh, Pvt. 1Cl..... ...Jackson, Tenn. 
Pierce, Robert N., Cpl...... Mivaxeteyate Paris, Tenn. Willoughby, Herman, Pvt....... Springfield, Ill. 
Presson, Arade, Pvt......... Tene abaris Toni: Wills, Ridley, Ist Sgt....... Brownsville, Tenn. 
Presson, Carles, Pvt..... ....-Big Sandy, Tenn. Wilson, Wm. H., Cook...... Beech Bluff, Tenn. 
Presson, Irby; Pvte. seh sss. Springville, Tenn. Winters, Edwin M., Pvt...... Big Sandy, Tenn. 
Pryor, Almyr J., Mech..... elvis sears, enn. Wiznauski, Mikel, Pvt........ ...Miersville, Pa. 
Pullen, Charles A., Pvt. 1Cl....... Henry, Tenn. Wood, Clyde M., Pvt....... .....Jdackson, Tenn. 
Pullen, John D., Pvt......Cottage Grove, Tenn. Wynn, HMligalS) Pivty LC. 2 sys ice Dulac, Tenn. 
Rainey, James W., Pvt.......... Jackson, Tenn. York, Mike, Pvt........... ..Black’s Ferry, Ky. 
Rasberry, Walter L., Pvt. 1Cl.Big Sandy, Tenn. Young, Geo. T., Pvt...... A cuaerseranete Riverton, Ill. 


Rosters 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Battery E. 


OFFICERS 
Names and Rank Address 
Brown, Enoch, Jr., Captain....Franklin, Tenn. 
Sweeney, E. B., Captain....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Brock. ‘ames; 1st) Tits Shveter. ce cea Nashville, Tenn. 
Polk, Horace, (WSt) Witte sine in Nashville, Tenn. 
Fields, Robert, ist DLit..05-.5.; Nashville, Tenn. 
Elliott, William Y., ist Lt..... Nashville, Tenn. 
Gaines, Jno. W., Jr., 1st Lt....Nashville, Tenn. 
Hunter, Clyde, ist Lt.......... Franklin, Tenn. 
Lays) Sat ee VEE shale ie ileieje os Columbia, Tenn. 


ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Allen, Ezra F., Pvt Manning, S. C. 


Anderson, Carlton, Set........... Cowan, Tenn. 
Anderson, Edgar B., Cpl....... Franklin, Tenn. 
Bailey, “Ovie) Li, Pivitusiieuies Centreville, Tenn. 
Baker, Gay. MeN acta clstelpietaieials) > 's Nashville, Tenn. 
Barnard, George, Pvt........ Lost Creek, Tenn. 
Bates, Albert E., Cook....... Collinwood, Tenn. 
Bales, Elmer H., Pvt...... Straw Plains, Tenn. 
Baveus, ranks Evita cinieelsis elon Nashville, Tenn. 
Beasley, Ezra C., Pvt.......... Nunnelly, Tenn. 
Benedict, Louis, Cpl..........). Nashville, Tenn. 
Bennett, Curtis A., Pvt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Bennett, William M., Sgt.......... Chicago, Ill. 
Benton, Thomas H., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Benz, Clarence R., Cpl........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Bess; owis) Ey, AP Vos lorie meveie Glenpool, Okla. 
Binkley, Frederick M., Pvt....Donelson, Tenn. 
Blackwell, Samuel H., Cpl...Chapel Hill, Tenn. 
Bolling, Frank, Pvt........-- Friendship, Tenn. 
Bolling, Richard E., Segt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Boman, Robert F., Pvt...Hanging Limb, Tenn. 
Bond, Robert D., Pvt.......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Bozeman, Henry D., Cpl..........- Selma, Ala. 
Bracey, “Amos (C.,). Pvt... ceri. ni. Nashville, Tenn. 
Brabham, Charles C., Pvt...New Brocklon, Ala. 
Bradley, Cullie W., Cpl......-+...5 Lyles, Tenn. 
Brannon, James H., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Brooker, Leon, Bglr..........- Nashville, Tenn. 
Brown, Dewey B., Pvt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Brown, Ralph E., Pvt...........Silverton, Ohio 
Bruce, We ee Ebene cle) blefoleie ake Nashville, Tenn. 
Buchannon, Chas. H., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Buchanan, Graham, Pvt........ Franklin, Tenn. 
Buek;) \Osear,’ ) Pvityn cis cicisis weiner Nashville, Tenn. 
Burrus, George T., Pvt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Burrus, Leslie C., Cpl......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Burton, Robert E., Pvt....... Lynchburg, Tenn. 
Butner, Roller, Pvt......-.-+... Nashville, Tenn. 
Cage, Wheeler T., Pvt........-. Gallatin, Tenn. 
Carr, George M., Pvt..........-. California, Ky. 
Carter, Theodore, Pvt........... Versailles, Ky. 
Carter, Pitman, Pvt.......essseeseue Paris, Ky. 
Church, Robert N., Sgt Nashville, Tenn. 
Chadwell, Andy J:, Pvt... uk 0 Hoop, Tenn. 
Cleghorne, Wm. R., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
GobDS; ) Wie WE eVikelels ere) se) Springfield, Tenn. 
Colwin, Am bhi 0 ev tare) Suet enue Loami, II. 
Copeland, Wm. M., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Cowan, Sam K., Pvticsvecs sive Franklin, Tenn. 
Crane, Joseph F., Pvt...... Summertown, Tenn. 
Crocker, Roy (Ci) GBWt ae ele ces Manchester, Tenn. 
Crumrine, Robert L., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Cullum) aoe! AP Vite. sleleln miele ...Nashville, Tenn. 
Cummins, Charlie, Pvt........ Georgétown, Ky. 
Curley, Eugene D., Pvt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Dalton, "Simeon WPVL sw css ocls nis ste loci Idol, Tenn. 
Daniel, Leon, Cook.......... Manchester, Tenn. 
Darby; Allen MiP Vt oie ae lercieim micieus Ludlow, Ky. 
Davis, Gordon, Mech..........- Nashville, Tenn. 
Deacon, Edwin, Pvt.......... Burlington, N. J. 
Diamond, John, Pvt........... Nashville, Tenn. 
Dorn, Henry C., Pvt......-. East St. Louis, Ill. 
Doye, Thomas E., Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Dudhope, Wesley W., Pvt........+ Atwater, Ill. 


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Dunean, Charles F., Pvt...... ....-Aetna, Tenn. 
Dunlop; Wobert, WVbe wc hee tateeieee Divernon, Ill. 
Dunn, Hrank D:; (Pvt... <<. sels Chicago, fll. 
Dye; Howard, (Seti. stewclnienieane Nashville, Tenn. 
Hari, )) Gailbuen Ae) vite creer Bellbuckle, Tenn. 
Ehrhardt, Ollie T., Sgt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Elkins, Robert, Pvt Milton, Tenn 
Emerson, Lucien P., Cpl.......Nashville, Tenn. 
Erwin, eran MP Witin oa reba neee Nashville, Tenn. 
Hstes; Mred* BD.) /P’vte. sist vie cae Sharon, Tenn, 
Ewell, Leighton, Sgt......... Manchester, Tenn. 
Ezell; Luther M., Cpls. st cieus Nashville, Tenn. 
Faircloth, Cameron, Sgt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Farrell, Fred C., ist Sgt.......Nashville, Tenn. 
Faqtin, Frank, Pvt... 0... .0=ccs Memphis, Tenn, 
Ferguson, Corbitt J., Pvt..... Little Lot, Tenn. 
Fielder, Daniel M., Pvt....... Little Lot, Tenn. 
Fly, ‘Clarence A., Set... <icwssteeien Miller, Ala. 
Bran, airwinel els deaNvGs tts system Nashville, Tenn. 
Georgantas, James A., Pvt...Dorchester, Mass. 
Gilbert, Dee P., Pvt......00s005 McEwen, Tenn 
Gilbert, William W., Pvt....... McEwen, Tenn. 
Glaze, John: W.,) SEE.) eile nate .. Elkton, Tenn, 
Golden, ye S. wie ot heie:s)ayepaveee ieee Unknown 
Goodrich, Steve D., H’r’s...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Gourley, William H.. Cpl........ St. Louis, Mo. 
Green,’ David) li, Pvt scree siete Nashville, Tenn. 
Griffin, Eugene E., Pvt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Griggs, Albert L., Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Griggs, George E., Cpl........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Hailey, Wilburn C., Pvt........ Ethridge, Tenn. 
Hannah, William N., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Harbin, \GroverviC., “Pyvtieis~ ssi Winfield, Ala. 
Hart, Dewees B., Sget.......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Helvey, (Richard Hy, (Pvt ii. neni Victor, Kan. 
Henderson, Robt. L., Pvt..... Evansville, Tenn. 
Rendrix)  rarrnis) ia: oe witch McEwen, Tenn. 


Higginbotham, Wallace, Cpl...Nashville, Tenn. 


iehs Albert, VPivtc is pis wievevsrsielerete Elmwood, Tenn, 
Holliday, Mark E., Pvt...... 2a vale le ahenere Unknown 
Huffaker, Ernest R., Pvt......... Kodak, Tenn. 
Huggins, Hooper P., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Efussey;, Paul E., Pvt... . <2 sis Palmyra, Tenn. 
Johns; (Willie B., 'Cplasccsccer Nashville, Tenn. 
Jones, John W.; Pvt....ssecece Nashville, Tenn. 
Jones, Ralph '€., (Cpls... <scee Franklin, Tenn. 
Jones, Robert D., Pvt........ Clarksville, Tenn. 
Jones, William P., Cpl......... Franklin, Tenn. 
Joseph, Clay E., Sgt.......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Keith, Samuel J., Sget......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Kernell, Thomas J., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Kimbro, William, Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn. 
King, Henry '@),) Mech}... 4:2... Belleview, Tenn. 
Kilyee,, ‘Pall, ‘SE vis eleaisivie cieleiele Nashville, Tenn. 
Knight, Charles L., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Lamb; Romie WJ, (Cplicc..-. =: Union City, Tenn. 


Lampkin, James E., H’r’s Nashville, Tenn. 
Langford, Hardy C., Cpl.....Cottontown, Tenn. 


Langham, Samuel B., Cpl..... Nashville, Tenn, 
Litehford, Frank D., Cpl..... Watertown, Tenn. 
Logue, Robt., Pvt... .-..0. .Chapel Hill, Tenn. 
Lovelace, Alecy M., Pvt. ...Greenbrier, Tenn. 
Luton, Luther L., Cpl......... Nashville, Tenn. 


McClanahan, Earl B., Pvt....Brentwood, Tenn. 


McCown, Wm. Hi). Pvt...)..0 = Nashville, Tenn. 
McCrutcheon, Regie R., Pvt..... Rembert, S. C. 
McGinnis, David F., Cpl....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Mellott,) Joh) Wi.) .JT,. CDlcs wei Nashville, Tenn. 
WU OD heh 1S SEN EE ee a es aie, a Plymouth, Pa. 
Mitehell)) ohn) T., PV bei. ccc siecle Nashville, Tenn. 
Mizell, Robert O., Sgt.......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Moore, George L., Pvt..... ....- Antioch, Tenn. 
Moran, “Hired! Jape vibsieier« a elnte lalate Edenwold, Tenn. 
Moran, Lawrence, Pvt........ Edenwold, Tenn. 
Murphy, Carl l., Pvt.......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Nelson, Wallace C., Cpl....Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
Newsom, John P., Pvt.......... Tarbors, N. C. 
Nobles} (Pred) (EW be antec! vivie)eisister share Columbia, Ala. 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 
Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Newman, Lavator, Pvt....... Sevierville, Tenn. Sparkman, Robert H., Pvt..... Nashville, Tenn. 
Nichol, Wm. L., Jr., Pvt..... «Nashville, Tenn. Springer, Edgar G., Pvt....... Iron City, Tenn. 
Nolan, Hardy, Pvt..............-- Bufala, Ala. Strange, Walter L., Pvt...... Dandridge, Tenn. 
See ee a gl trees sane: au Stuckey, Welzie C., Cpl........ Evansville, Ind. 
Olofsson, Oscar F., Sgt........ Nashville, Tenn. ay lacs ee eaaee Se Chandi coer wom 
S RAY EONS OHSS) ELI Sic c.csd aysama es Nashville, Tenn. 

sment, Luther B., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. Tayl Willi 3 
O’Quinn, Berry, Pvt.......... Walterboro, S. C. aylor, William O., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Perry, Wm. W., Pvt........-0e:- Roanoke, Ala. Tennison, Alonzo, Pvyt....... ..Nashville, Tenn. 
Pashall, Douglas, Sgt.......... Franklin, Tenn. THomas;) Robert E.,. Cpl. 4. otis Clovis, Calif, 
Patrick, James S., Pvt...:....Nashville, Tenn. Thompson, Matt N., Segt....... Gainesville, Fla, 
Patterson, Clarence M., Sgt..... Vanleer, Tenn. BIMere, Henry CBee Vite sf neaic<s/<e © Lyles, Tenn. 
Patterson, Joseph H., Pvt...... Waverly, Tenn. Turrentine, Frank T., Pvt....Shelbyville, Tenn. 
Patterson, Ewell R., Pyt...... Nashville, Tenn. Tseukatos, GoD.) Pvt. ic-cuses Straudsburg, Pa. 
Picton, Walter L., Sgt......... Nashville, Tenn. Vance, William J., Bgir...... Hartsville, Tenn. 
Pincus, Solomon S., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn. Viullott, August, Pvt..... -...New Orleans, La, 
Rone) gohn (Co) USebs <5 .). cies Springfield, Tenn. Wadley, John A., Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn. 
edmond: sHred Pvb.s.-cacs-secee was Ott, Ala. Wall, Jobnet Pvb.. sc. es Toulminnsville, Ala. 
Randolph, George T., Pvt........ Adams, Tenn. Waggoner, Benj. F., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Reeves, Edward W., Cpl........ Pulaski, Tenn. Walker, George E., Cook...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Reynolds, Charles E., Pvt..... Nashville, Tenn. Waller, James V., Pvt........ Washburn, Tenn. 
Richardson, Bethel J., Pyvt.Summertown, Tenn. Ward, William P., Pvt........ Nashville, Tenn 
Rikansrud, Thorlief I., Pvt........... Unknown Washington, Wm. L., Cpl....... Pegram, Tenn 
aller Gert A, Pvtye ice. ccs aes Pulaski, Tenn. Watson; Paul E.,-Pvt.i... 6.0. Nashville, Tenn 
Robertson, Campbell, Pvt....... Jackson, Tenn. Webb, Clifford B., Cook....... Nashville, Tenn 
Roep, Henry M., Pvt........ Powell Sta., Tenn. West, Lester H., Private...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Scalf, Thomas E., Cook......... Pulaski, Tenn. Wheeler, Durward B., Pvt..... Nashville, Tenn, 
Sehulman, Sol, Pvt-...25..si00. Nashville, Tenn. Wherry, Priestly, Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn 
Sesler, Anthony M., Pvt...... Cheap Hill, Tenn. Wileman, Wade H., Pvt....... Hillsboro, Tenn 
WaarpePeney, | Cpl. cise cccees Nashville, Tenn. Williams, James J., Cpl....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Singleton, Oscar, Pvt...... ...-Little Lot, Tenn. Williams, Luther C., Pvt....White Pine, Tenn 
Sherman, Charlie, Pvt.......... Lafayette, Ala. Williams, Robert G., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn 
Smarer, shred hy, Pvt... cess ces Mt. Juliet, Tenn. Winters, George N., Pvt....... Nashville, Tenn 
Smartt, James C., Pvt. ...Mt. Juliet, Tenn. Winters, Eugene M., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn 
RRO GOV Rte EP Vitie cre cate, wisvevera:s Columbia, Tenn. Wood: Carroll! P:,° Pvtecsiss acs Nashville, Tenn 
pmith, Dane EL, Pvt. ....:. Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. Wright, Harry W., Pvt....... Mt. Juliet, Tenn 
Smith, Lee W., Mech....Castalian Spgs., Tenn. ZENG SOCY USE bwiesi= «ie is) ainisistes Nashville, Tenn. 
Rando, Roger D., Pvt. .c.sc.0s Nashville, Tenn. Yenowine, Stanley R., Mech...Nashville, Tenn 
Smothers, Fount T., Pvt......... Linden, Tenn. Wounge, Harold, Cpli. is... Horn Spring, Tenn. 


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Rosters 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Battery F 


OFFICERS 


Names and Rank Address 
Henderson, Thomas P., Captain.Franklin, Tenn. 
Long, Mitchell, Captain.......... Pulaski, Tenn. 
Jackson, Nat B., Captain...... Nashville, Tenn. 
McNeal, Edwin C., ist Lt..Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Dunlop, Joe P., Jr., 1st Lt....Clarksville, Tenn. 


Te wast Oma ers ss el Sit xt is meta tavaie a aiaeita Carlisle, Pa. 
Joyner, (Guy rE) USE Tete eno 0 6 Memphis, Tenn. 
Guuby. fobn ae st Wits s ce sie 6 Baltimore, Md. 
Eharers sce est alist bite ik sere vcuala Johnson City, Tenn. 
Doyler Chas Set sh Pte sei ciciee New York City 


Findley, Jefferson W., 1st Lt....Dahlongea, Ga. 
Wilson, McDonald H., ist Lt..Kansas City, Mo. 
Cavanaugh, N. V. R., Ist Lt.....Richmond, Va. 
Gait; Miniter!) QyiGavEntiseteeveiy + =.6. Columbia, Tenn. 
Warfield, Francis B., 2nd Lt....Franklin, Tenn. 
Gaines, John W., Jr., 2nd Lt...Nashville, Tenn. 


Hast. MOMs Ang ee teeieietateleiers)s ls clas els Carlisle, Pa. 
Horsley, John, 2nd Lt......... .....Bangor, Me. 
Chapman, Rollin G., 2nd Lt.....New York City 
Neeley, James H., 2nd Lt...... Memphis, Tenn. 
Polk, Horace T., 2nd Lt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Shaw, John W.,. 2n@ Ete secu. Quincey, Fla. 
Carman, ‘Wm. C:, 2nd) Dt... ..%. Gibson, Tenn. 
Waterberry, S. W., 2nd Lt...... Elizabeth, N. J. 
Harmon, Francis S., 2nd Lt...Poplarville, Miss. 
Myers, John W., 2nd Lt...... Indianapolis, Ind. 
Siiitier) GWianky eh. au Eten feller aterehals Oakland, Cal. 


John, Frederick C., 2nd Lt.....Milwaukee, Wis. 
Johnson, Robt. T., 2nd Lt...Chattanooga, Tenn. 


Hughes, Owen W., 2nd Lt...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Paschall, Wm. D., 2nd Lt.......Franklin, Tenn. 
ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Aden, Arthur (©. Pvitis selene ees Memphis, Tenn. 
Alderson, Thos. J., Sd’lr....... Columbia, Tenn. 
Allen) Gentry, (Cploiis us cue cee wee Franklin, Tenn. 
Allen, Lee, Pvt....... Columbia, Tenn., R. F. D. 
Anderson, J. D., Pvt. 1Cl..Thompson Sta., Tenn. 
Anderson, Robert G., Pvt....... Franklin, Tenn. 
Anderson, Willie D., Pvt. 1Cl..... Sparta, Tenn. 
Andrew, Ulna F., Cpl..... Franklin, Tenn., R. 4 
Armes, Arthur T., Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn. 


Atkinson, Everett, (Pvt.. Uke 320.5 0), 

alsiaaVintare Pocetahakeusteeatatt bets Sante Fe, Tenn., R. 1 
Bailey, (Chas: Aw niPvit.n Tl senate te 

Cas eet Lawrenceburg, Tenn., R. 2 
Bailey, Robt. L., Pvt. 1Cl. Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Bailey; Robert, Pye Ol Oe wipes 

wienafare Jags eysoateye tae Lawrenceburg, Tenn., R. 2 
Bailey, ;GroveruNey) vit: ericsson eee 

a Polane eer ....--Lawrenceburg, Tenn., R. 2 


Bailey, Wm. G., Pvt. 1Cl.....Birmingham, Ala. 
Bailey, Dleyd: Mvtiics.cks se deinn Raleigh, Wyo. 
Baker, Claude E. N., Pvt........ Springfield, Ill. 
Barr, Wm. J., Pvt.....Glenfield, Allegheny, Pa. 
Battles, Carl M., Sgt...... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Batts, John H:; Mech... 0.0... Columbia, Tenn. 
Beard, John? BY, Pvt. isc. oceiels Boston, Tenn. 
Bearden, Claude P., Cpl........ Franklin, Tenn. 
Belew, Clyde W., Pvt..... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Hest,| Newt. * ©; Cpl piss ame ..Crestview, Tenn. 
Billineton, Robt. [us \Sd’ir ws ste. Match, Tenn. 
Black, Wm. A., Pvt..Broadtop Huntington, Pa. 
Blocker, Basil Oy (Cpls. s sgee Columbia, Tenn. 
Blocker, Everett, Cpl..........Columbia, Tenn. 
Bolin, Burnard, Pvt. 1Cl.........Versailles, Ky. 
Bowlin, Avery, Pvt. 1Cl,.......Franklin, Tenn. 
Booker, Murphy, Cpl....... ....Sante Fe, Tenn. 
Bradley, Ralph B., Pvt........ Cincinnati, Ohio 
Bradford, Jas. A., Pvt........ Bon Aqua, Tenn. 


Brewer, Andrew E., Pvt..Carter’s Creek, Tenn. 
Brewer, Ed G., Pvt. 1Cl...Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 


Bright, Harry E., Pvt..... Sete dae cs Elk, W. Va. 
Brinnon, Vernon R., Pvt......Mills Potter, Pa. 
Brown, Allen, Sgt..............Franklin, Tenn. 


Names and Rank Address 
Brown, Nathan L., Cpl.........Columbia, Tenn. 
Bryant, Jack, Pvt. 1Cl......Summerville, Tenn. 
Buchanan, Stokes, Pvt. 1Cl.....Franklin, Tenn. 
Buchanan, Everett H., Bglr.....Franklin, Tenn. 


Buchanon, Holland G., Pvt.....Franklin, Tenn. 
Buckner, Edw. R., Stable Sget............ 
dowel ++....-.Thompson Sta., Tenn. 


Burgess, Blant, Pvt..............Leoma, Tenn. 
Burke, Chas. L., Pvt..........Dyersburg, Tenn. 
Butler, Fletcher W., Pvt....... Appleton, Tenn. 
Byrne, Michael F. J., Pvt. 1Cl..Nashville, Tenn. 
Caldwell, Will B., Pvt....Thompson Sta., Tenn. 
Callahan, Robt. C., Pvt.....Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. 
Calton, Franklin R., Pvt..Lawrenceburg, Tenn, 
Calton, Walter M., Pvt...Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Campbell, Clyde, Pvt. 1Cl......Franklin, Tenn. 


Campbell, Jas. S., Cpl..........Franklin, Tenn. 
Campbell, Marshall T., Cpl........Sullivan, Ill. 
Cancelliare, Domenico, Pvt. 1Cl....Verden, Ill. 
Canfield, Albert B., Pvt. 1Cl........ .Cunan, Ill. 
Capella, Soe) PV tab easiest ccielehaeeee ...Benld, Ill. 
Carter, James M.,) Pvitese. ccc Franklin, Tenn, 
Cason, Wm. A., Mess Set...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Chumley, Jones H., Pvt. 1Cl...Columbia, Tenn. 
Church) Parley. Pvities sims Williamsport, Tenn. 
Claytor}) leo Pyt.) UC scsi eeineeere Denver, Tenn. 
Cocke, Francis, Cpl........Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Coffman, Jas. A., Pvt.....Maynardsville, Tenn. 
Coleman, Albert, Pvt......... ....Leoma, Tenn. 
Collins, Chas. G., Cpl..........Lynnville, Tenn. 
Conway, Bryan, Pvt........ Morar Leoma, Tenn. 
Conway, Teese Sets sisi. 00 elhha tate saneeaee Leoma, Tenn. 
Cooper; Ollie. D.,, Piyvite.i.)<) ce se mien Columbia, Tenn. 
Covey, Roy M., Pvt.......Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Craft, Howard B., Pvt...Wayland Spgs., Tenn. 
Cranford: (oe) Aly (Cpe. =)sicinelete Columbia, Tenn. 
Crawford, Vernon B., Pvt. 1Cl..Appleton, Tenn. 
Crews, Kesley, Pvt........ Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Cunningham, Barney, Pvt. 1Cl........ B= 

aistads (even svat ctigtch esse ote ve ....Cotton Town, Tenn. 
Dailey, Henry. S., Pvt. 0.5 .\/. ..Centreville, Ala. 
Dale, Robert F., Stable Sgt.....Marshall, Texas 
Dodd), Leslie W., Pvt... ..- ....Crestview, Tenn. 
Dooley, Lee, Beglr....... heya Gc Columbia, Tenn. 
Dotson, Dewey, Pvt........ ...-Centreville, Tenn, 
Douglas, Lester Ay) (Pvt. ace «listers Macon, Ga. 
Dugan, Lawrence C., Pvt........ Primm, Tenn. 
Durham, Jonah G., Segt....... Henryville, Tenn. 
Fallis; \-Aulwie ME.) SPivtecie. osm «anenere Moulton, Ala. 
Eskew, Joe, Pvt. 1Cl.......Wéilliamsport, Tenn. 
Farr, Arthur H., Mech......... Franklin, Tenn. 
Finnell, Arthur J., Pvt........Columbia, Tenn. 
Forehand, John I., Pvt. 1Cl....... Primm, Tenn. 
Forehand, LeRoy, Pvt. 1Cl.......Primm, Tenn. 
Rox) Chas j iPivite aGl i nists tart steiete .. Boston, Tenn. 
Hox) Mleslie; MCpulicisc sicv.steielsvere alaiets ...Boston, Tenn. 
Hox. Dhos.C., Cpls aic.5 -+.....-.Boston, Tenn. 
Freeman, Geo. L., Pvt.........Columbia, Tenn. 
Garner, Teddie D., Pvt....Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Garretson, Teddie, Pvt........... Leoma, Tenn. 
Gentry, | Was ERs) VP Vib. ateyaiermterniaiens Franklin, Tenn. 
Gentry, Syphert H., Pvt........ Franklin, Tenn. 
Glaser, Gowis) (Ay, (Pvt. 215c\e eine niate Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Goodwin, Everett, Cpl..........Columbia, Tenn. 
Green, Bryan, Pvt........... .....Primm, Tenn. 
Green, Jas. A., Pvt.............Franklin, Tenn. 
Green, Wm. H., Cook.......... Franklin, Tenn. 
Greensfelder, Herbert, Pvt. 1Cl.Logansport, Ind. 
Grinnell, Lonie, Pvt....... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Hannah, Arley, Pvt....... «.e.....Leoma, Tenn. 
Hanson, Lucius F., Pvt......... .Loretta, Tenn. 
Harmon) EROS: ME Vib is ele) sl) shoretel= .Match, Tenn. 
Harvey, TueRoy;) UP vitiee nee. selene ene Aaron, Fla. 
Hayes, Hardy V., Cpl..........Ethridge, Tenn. 
Hayes, Wm. S., Cpl...... .....-Columbia, Tenn. 
Head, Walter E., Cpl........ ....Pulaski, Tenn. 


Helmick, John I., Pvt. 1Cl.....Ethridge, Tenn. 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 
Names and Rank _ Address Names and Rank Address 
Holcomb, Hal, Pvt.......... Spring Hill, Tenn. Poteete, Neil R., Pvt. 1Cl.Thompson Sta., Tenn. 
Holcomb, Leslie, Pvt........ Spring Hill, Tenn. Powell, Homer C., Pvt....Pleasant Point, Tenn. 
Holman, Wilson D., Cook...... Columbia, Tenn. (UNcCKetty JHC | Pivite waretatsleveaisier ieee Franklin, Tenn 
Holmes, Elmer, Pvt. 1Cl....... Sante Fe, Tenn. Rackley, Willie W., H’r’s....Good Spgs., Tenn 
EOOG ET OG, UE VG. eciele oleheinya eect ei Timmons, Tenn. Reaves, Nathaniel, Pvt........ Columbia, Tenn. 
Hooper, Jas. L., Pvt...... ....--Gallatin, Tenn. Reddick, Vernon, Pvt...... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Howell, Geo.) Ty PVte ei ic dese Memphis, Tenn. Reilly yal LS) eS Ebee ela) wiah sie-wiadale Franklin, Tenn. 
Howlett, Jas. H., Sgt........... Franklin, Tenn. Reynolds, Hendley S., Pvt...... Franklin, Tenn, 
Hughes; Chas, F.,) Pyt..sc ic... ,..-Danville, Ala. Reynolds). Richards (Gp... sce Franklin, Tenn 
Hughes, Howard G., Cpl....... Columbia, Tenn. UH OG a AUv iia, Minit alcatel ateielsiciie mieyele Ethridge, Tenn 
Hughes, Raymond, Pvt....... Darks Mill, Tenn. MICe MBSR UANGs VEviriine < sictsiald suns ie Columbia, Tenn. 
Jarrett, Wesley K., Cook......... Match, Tenn. Ridner, David R., Pvt........... Frankfort, Ind. 
Jennette, Percy, Cpl...... Thompson Sta., Tenn. Riley, Albert, Pvt. 1Cl.....Williamsport, Tenn. 
POISONS OHTA Grog) EN Unie allalintaisifel at ayeielelle) tinsel ale Taytol=p es einsh, Nahin BUCA Sao odcode Match, Tenn. 

iatevalatelevateic avers tone Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pa. Ring, Eldridge C., Cook.. .. Match, Tenn. 
Johnson, Farl, Pvt. 1Cl........ Columbia, Tenn. IPDS, i COMIN Te Whatcha ie'siedaielxjsielale Leoma, Tenn. 
Johnston, Owen, Sgt............ Franklin, Tenn. Roberts, Walter L., Pvt. 1Cl..Nolensville, Tenn. 
Jones, Howard B., Pvt......... Sante Fe, Tenn. Robison, Dan M., Mess Segt.....Franklin, Tenn. 
EASES WMV nh EOVibe cals hele(eeletellaielei/a) sie Chicago, fll. Rogers, Samuel, Pt. 1Cl....... Columbia, Tenn. 
DSCaTNS VV Is sy Vite ss cis cieis wie elec Moffat, N. C. Royse, Belford, Pvt....... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
ISeI8O,) EN DOrt et. eVte LCi s iiice cies en sie nics Budol phy Wall Sige Cplee ce icise a Clarksville, Tenn. 

ode COO GOO AM OOG OM Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Rupe, Robert W., Sgt......Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. 
Kinnard, THOS. des Op... sic 0 > Columbia, Tenn. Saddler, Edw. C., Pvt. 1Cl.Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Kirk, Wm. H., Set... .: Nutley (Essex), N. J. SAtLORG ene lays ie WLslelaisle eierelielehel sielieihe Tiosa, Ind. 
PSOKINAKOS) ELATLY, HPVs ccc velcule «cle eee Shannon; Hidred)V.; Pvt. Gh occ ccc wee 

fo tio beaieionad es Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pa. coer eveeeeees+seee-Pleasant Point, Tenn. 
Lapham, Arthur L., Cook.Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Sharpe dObMP By SSte. Gisele «re Columbia, Tenn. 
mavender;, Wim., Pvt... ..ecceccness Match, Tenn. Shinholster, Litt. L., Pvt. 1Cl..... Ashford, Ala, 
maws) Thos. Gi, Pvt. sce. ccses Henryville, Tenn. Sherley, Ernest G., Mech...... Columbia, Tenn. 
Litral, Nolen N., Pvt...... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Sherley, Melvin F., Pyt. 1Cl....Columbia, Tenn. 
Locke, Willie G., Pvt........... Franklin, Tenn. smith; Chas: Ws) Cpe. css. oles Franklin, Tenn. 
ooney; Wm, Rif Pvtioweccce es Lockdale, Tenn. Smithy bhueh Pvt. | PO lacs acs Columbia, Tenn. 
Lumpkins, Baxter, Pvt.......... Greenhill, Ala. Smith, Isaac B., Mech..... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Mailey, Cornelius J., Pvt........ Harrison, N. J. Smith, Luther H., Pvt. 1Cl.Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Marston, Taylor, Pvt. 1Cl......... Leoma, Tenn. Springer) uoney, (Cl) VEU Siac <tc «eiciere Leoma, Tenn. 
Marston, Wendell, Cpl..... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Stanley, Hubert, Pvt. 1Cl....... Franklin, Tenn. 
Martin, Ephrim J., Mech..... Nolensville, Tenn. Stern, Leslie B., Bglr........... Franklin, Tenn. 
Mathis; Ruth, Pvt. 1Cl........... Loretta, Tenn. Sweeney, Bernard, Pvt. 1Cl.....Franklin, Tenn. 
Matthews, Brown, Cpl......... Columbia, Tenn. Sweeney, Ellis, Pvt. 1Cl........ Franklin, Tenn. 
McClain, Felix M., Cook....Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. Sweeney, Paul, H'r’s....... Leiper’s Fork, Tenn. 
McCloud, Ned B., Sgt.......... Lynnville, Tenn. Tidwell, Harvey E., Pvt.......... Lunetta, Ala. 
McDaniels, Claude, Pvt......... Memphis, Tenn. Tidwell, Walter, Pvt. 1Cl...... Columbia, Tenn. 
McLean, Joe Y., Pvt...... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Thompson, Harry, Cook...Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Week, Abe T., Seti. occ. wanace ss Columbia, Tenn. Thompson, John §S., Sgt........ Columbia, Tenn. 
Mefford, Jas. B., Pvt..... Thompson Sta., Tenn. Thornton, Salmon, Cook...Leipers Fork, Tenn. 
Melton, Ruby, Pvt......... Andersonville, Tenn. MoVley,)) SOS VW; (SB tee /eis vi selele nls Columbia, Tenn. 
Miller, Clarence, Pvt...... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Tomlin, James, Pvt. 1Cl......).. Franklin, Tenn. 
Miller, Clayton, Pvt........ Powell's Sta., Tenn. Tomlin, | Meslicy Se tees car unslale Franklin, Tenn, 
Morehead, Ovid R., Cpl........ Columbia, Tenn. Usher, Ogden C., Ch. Mech....Crestview, Tenn. 
Moser, Garnett H., Pvt...-...... Columbia, Tenn. MOSS} ELemrys I. bev ter eis oivie/eysi ai elats Columbia, Tenn. 
MMEOOTCs) AS EY bE Vitisielacss sete aeela Waverly, Tenn. Wiad er GeOnmW sy Evils cial ouiey shaketel a Talladega, Ala, 
Mouchas, John, Pvt............ Haverhill, Mass Walding, Doster, Pvt.......... Cottonwood, Ala. 
Mutlins: 'Chas). (Cy Pyt.cL@h vic wees Leoma, Tenn Waller) EGeOm ie Pivitterps n wpereteierevens) sevens Savannah, Ga. 
Mullins, Chris L., Pvt. 1Cl........ Leoma, Tenn Warfield, Francis B., 1st Segt...Franklin, Tenn. 
Nelson, Geo. F., Pvt......... Lenoir City, Tenn. Warren, John W., Pvt.....-:c.«. Linden, Tenn. 
Nevils, John M., Pvt. 1Cl.Thompson Sta., Tenn. Wasson, Joe L., Pvt. 1Cl....... Ethridge, Tenn. 
Nichols, Geo. W., Cook........ Columbia, Tenn. Watson, Clarence, 1st Sgt...... Columbia, Tenn. 
Nixon, Cannon C., Cpl..... Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Watson, Eldin R., Sgt....... Spring Hill, Tenn. 
Northington, Jno. R., Supply Set......... Watson, Sim, H’r’s.......... Spring Hill, Tenn. 

cold Ge ORO TCA Gp ceimies e a0 Clarksville, Tenn. Wessinger, Joe T., Pvt............Fairfax, Ala. 
(Oleh i mde h aly Clo) BES A rcipesiee cha Spring Hill, Tenn. White, Wm. H., Pvt..... Pleasant Point, Tenn. 
Overton; John’ J.,) Cooks .c)..0 6. Columbia, Tenn. Wiley, Andrew P., Set......... Franklin, Tenn. 
Patterson, Geo. R., Pvt. 1Cl..... Palmyra, Tenn. Wilson; | Otto’ M:, Cpl... i). occ <<) Appleton, Tenn. 
Patterson, Malcolm C., Pvt..... Ethridge, Tenn. Wiltshire, Raymond E., Cpl....Franklin, Tenn. 
Paul, Arthur Ey Pvt, Ole... Columbia, Tenn, Willerford, Clyde M., Sgt........... Miami, Fla. 
BAW OG! (etay EAA Siler sch aleve ere lal lavesere Match, Tenn. Williams, Harry C., Pvt........ Columbia, Tenn. 
Pennington, Leachman, Pvt. 1Cl......... Williams, Fleming O., Pvt. 1Cl.Franklin, Tenn. 

Bia CEE: CLO UIE AOE CI ER RG Henryville, Tenn. Walliamis)) Marvin ER vit.) UCT eiia. rele cholate 
Pinkston, Wm. C., Cph......... OCA eT ys bil ta nnelln grommet sala tet atells) al dia) ac Thompson Sta., Tenn. 
POH ESAT ceseyat EAVi stale a (aap otal ae tal <ichiate Napier, Tenn. Winn, Willie, Mech............ Columbia, Tenn. 
ieee \yimoak Mee Mena al CRA Sain ain Napier, Tenn. Wirte hts ob ey VP Wiel) .)<o) <1) aie Codesville, S. C. 
Pointer, Tom W., Cpl.......... Franklin, Tenn. MOU Waris, EV Ealateralete s ahersiellohele Franklin, Tenn. 


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Rosters 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Headquarters Company 


OFFICERS 
Names and Rank Address 
Fields, Robert G., Captain..... Nashville, Tenn. 


Jackson, N. Baxter, Captain...Nashville, Tenn. 
Gracey, Frank P., Captain...Clarksville, Tenn. 


Kempker, Harry, Captain...... Memphis, Tenn. 
Wilson, McDonald H., ist Lt..Kansas City, Mo. 
Pointer, Thos. W., ist Lt...... Franklin, Tenn. 
Nelson, Charles, Ist Lt........ Nashville, Tenn. 


Johnson;) RODE! LE. Ire. | LSty at ct ejeteeim cle 
Beasties; Mh alabaver ei bl at biel en cieiette Elizabethton, Tenn. 
Boynton, Kellogg, 1st Lt... .Keysville, N. Y. 
Callan, Paul J., ist Lt.....Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Brittain, David J., 1st Lt.....Maryville, Tenn. 
Evers, Frank B., 1st Lt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Caldwell, Emil D., 1st Lt.......... Paris, Tenn. 
Brown, Elsworth, ist Lt...Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Cheek, Frank, ist Lt..........Nashville, Tenn. 


Shaw, John Ww, 2nd (itive. i... ote Quincey, Fla. 
Stoughton, Galen M., 2nd Lt........ Osaga, Iowa 
Swenson, Harold E., 2nd Lt....Hartford, Conn. 


Myers, John W., 2nd Lt...... Indianapolis, Ind. 
Demand, Lafayette B., 2nd Lt........... 

apdhct apavay claves oy staaaoy sk ohaketemetete ds Warrensburg, Mo. 
Suiter) (Wim. J (2nd VLIGY oases Oakland, Cal. 


Smith) IDA Oi Zee Tartipetierepatcteunts ot ates Atlanta, Ga. 
Hughes, Owen W., 2nd Lt......Nashville, Tenn. 
Gilbert, John W., 2nd Lt...... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Faircloth, Edw. C., Jr., 2nd Lt.Nashville, Tenn. 
Bailey, Broadus, 2nd Lt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Adams, Jobn\i.,) Pvt. , Cee sta. Morgan City, La. 
Alexander, Stafford, Cpl...... Harrisburg, N. C. 
Alford; )Fohm RP yvtry ices nie Lewisburg, Tenn. 
Alleel; (Steve, IPwitie cele sine ciels ois New York City 
Allen, Claude A., Sgt........ .. Nashville, Tenn. 


Amis, Lewis F., Reg. Sgt. Maj.Franklin, Tenn. 
Anderson, Jas. W., Pvt....Rocky Mount, N. C. 


Aust, John oR: (Cole. weliescecieme Nashville, Tenn. 
Bailey, John W., Cpl........Fayetteville, Tenn. 
Baker, Frank B., Cpl.......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Ballinger, Raymond, Pvt. 1@io.5. 06. 2. J .)s 

eh adtaie Ole seis simiw ia kee oe New Market, Tenn. 
Barker, Wm. P., Pvt...........Memphis, Tenn. 


Barlow, John H., Sup. Sgt.Pennington Gap, Va. 
Bartles, Paul, Mus. 2Cl.. ..-Nashville, Tenn. 


Bass) Clarke tne (Seti cis sine aiaete Lebanon, Tenn. 
Bearden, Wm. H., Mus. 3Cl....Franklin, Tenn. 
Bell, Wiley R., Cook....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Benz, Clarence E., Cpl......... Nashville, Tenn. 


Bordeaux, Jas. C., Pvt...... 
Berlack, Wm., Pvt. 1Cl..... “| 


-Honoraville, Ala. 
..Memphis, Tenn. 


BSS WV. Ce MP tle cinta sey ...Lewisburg, Tenn. 
Blythe, Lewis L., Pvt. 1Cl.....Memphis, Tenn. 
Boardman, Wm. K., Set....... Columbia, Tenn. 
Bolling, Richard E., 1st Sgt...Nashville, Tenn. 
Bolling; (Wan. Ey, VSEt seen. ces Memphis, Tenn. 
Boren, Wm. S., Bd. Cpl...... Lewisburg, Tenn. 
Bossinger, Reynolds A., Pvt... -Altoona, Pa. 
Box, Horace D., Mus. 3Cl...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Bradley, Edgar L., Mess Sgt..Knoxville, Tenn. 
Bray, Chas) (Asi Pit.) Chee. teste Tazewell, Tenn. 
Bray, Lenox J., 1st Sgt......... Westerly, R. I. 
Brazil, Milford S., Bglr...... .. Nashville, Tenn. 
ipreton, ‘Odiony (Evite. cess ee . Weymouth, Mass. 


Brock, Jas. F., Pvt. 1Cl...Fountain City, Tenn. 
Bryant, Bruce A., Mus. ACh + eee ae Tenn. 
Bryant, Lawrence E., Bn. Sgt. Major.. 


yoo prescoponosUp sab anane Nashville, Tenn. 
Bunch, Raymond C., Bn. ‘Set. Major..... 

dic tatoseeuconu yD ad .....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Burk, Wm. A, Mus. 3Cl...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Burks, Robert C., Cpl...... Soo ie Halls, Tenn. 
Butrymus, Alex, ‘Pvt Ay SIO eno oy Hartford, Conn. 
Byrne, das. P:, Jr, Cpls.-2 ...Nashville, Tenn. 
Calavano, Michael, Pvt............. ..Unknown 


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Names and Rank Address 
Carlton, Thos. I., Pvt. 1Cl.....Nashville, Tenn. 


Charlet, Elbert P., Cpl......... Livermore, Ky. 
Cheek, Will T., Sget............ Nashville, Tenn. 
Cheney, John E., Bd...............Chicago, Ill. 
Choate, Oscar, Pvt. 1Cl..... ....Dickson, Tenn. 


Clark, Harold C., Mus. 1Cl....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Clokey, Marmaduke P., Cpl...Knoxville, Tenn. 
Cocklin, Dennis P., Pvt......... Harrisburg, Pa. 
Condro, Lawrence B., Pvt......Whitwell, Tenn. 
Cone; Wim) 35:)) Muss: S@la)es re sterveiene Victor, N. Y. 
Cooper, Ollie D., Stable Sgt..Hohenwald, Tenn. 
Cooper, Roy D., Cpl...... .....-Nashville, Tenn. 
Cornelius, Leland S., Cpl...Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Crowder, Robert S., Pvt........Rosebud, Tenn. 


Cullum! (Ollie! Tis Gps c= cweie Nashville, Tenn. 
Cunningham, Hobson D., Pvt...../...Unknown 
Daniel, Wm., Sup. Sget........ Clarksville, Tenn. 
Davidson, Richard W., Pvt.....Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Dean, Mohn YM.s "Pvtie. ss <0) a0 .....Albany, N. Y. 
Dehart, Edgar §S., Pvt. 1Cl......... Milton, Pa. 
Desport; Wm. As, Cpl ie nner Nashville, Tenn. 
Donaldson, Paul, Sgt........ ..Nashville, Tenn. 
Dougherty, Orville S., Pvt........Bellwood, Pa. 


DTU, | Was. VE. Visine) ie sts mlele ...Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Dunn, Geo. M., Cpl....... .....Nashville, Tenn. 
Eastman, Elbridge G., Pvt..... Nashville, Tenn. 
Edwards, H. W., Cpl...... Cottage Grove, Tenn. 
Eggleston, Edmond A., Cpl...... Allison, Tenn. 
Elhardt, Ludwig B., Asst. Bd. Ldr....... 

pUavahatst alert hatch ciebat ett «......Nashville, Tenn. 
Emerson, Frank, Pvt.......... Columbia, Tenn. 
Evans, Wm. E., Pvt. 1Cl....Powell Sta., Tenn. 


Fairleigh; Hall Bs) Pvit.n)./cjee ce beielate . Unknown 
Faquin, Frank C., Pvt.... ...-Memphis, Tenn. 
Ferreira, Earl W., Pvt. 1Cl..... Springfield, Ill. 
Mieety whase (Sz 74S plies a tere Memphis, Tenn. 
Fleming, Willie L., Mus. 2Cl..Nashville, Tenn. 
Fraser, Tillman, Pvt.......... Nashville, Tenn. 


Freeman, Geo. L., Pvt. 1Cl... 
Freeman, Jean A., Cpl.. 


-Columbia, Tenn. 
. Hendersonville, Tenn. 


Frierson, Wm. C., Reg. Sap Major> eis 

San close Bec .. Nashville, Tenn. 
EVOL, oki WE Met. as abet ietela ene . Unknown 
Gardner, John Be Pvt. ci Englewood, Tenn. 
Gerard, Myron oN Vitesse .....-.- Unknown 
Gerhart; Alex, Pvt........ «ee... Wetherly, Pa. 
Girton)  Hredi iP. GDh ii. sasntn Winchester, Tenn. 
Gittens, Morgan, Beglr...... .. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Goodloe, Harvel M., Sgt.......Nashville, Tenn. 


Gray;) Bente) Bdas Seite. aise Nashville, Tenn. 
Grissom, Lum R., Pvt.. 1Cl.Maynardsville, Tenn. 
Groom, Sidney A., Bd. Ldr....Nashville, Tenn. 


Gunselman, Henry L., Mus. 8Cl...... ater e 

a ba\y alive tale SRBC RECN asa re del ae» Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Hailey, Wilburn C., Cpl........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Hancock, Enoch C., Sr. Color Sgt........ 

HAA PA onan he fenciel stole ......Nashville, Tenn. 
Hardin, Matthews W., Set..... -Maryville, Tenn. 
Harris; ames (Gi Seibasin clare oleate Waverly, Tenn. 
Harrison, Thirman C., Mech..Union City, Tenn. 
ELAIES) SEROMA) ete se aWilin ie tiads (el nie) arate toeiianats .....Unknown 


Hayes, Ivan E., Pvt.......Roaring Springs, Pa. 
Henderson, Jasper, Pvt.......Dandridge, Tenn. 
Hinckley, Avery, Mus. 8Cl....... .....Unknown 
Hodge, Porter A., Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Hoenicke, Harry E., Pvt...........Chicago, Ill. 
Holcomb, Summit, Pvt. 1Cl..Elk Valley, Tenn. 
Holden, Ralph D., Pvt. 1Cl....Wartrace, Tenn. 


Holder) (Chash Ey CPNtie ence sere Town Creek, Ala. 
Holt, Andrew, Pvt......... -+.-.-.Bybee, Tenn. 
Hosse, Manlius S., Pvt.........Nashville, Tenn. 
Hosse, Wm. H., Pvt..... Mog.cns Nashville, Tenn. 
Houk, Erskine D., Mus. 3Cl...Lewisburg, Tenn. 
TVOVAS; | Chas TIS Ste otais alone lausyaleieiolls Ripley, Miss. 


Hughes, Owen, Bn. Sgt. Maj...Nashville, Tenn. 
Humphreys, Andrew V., Mus. 3Cl....Unknown 
Hurst, Henry G., Mus. 3Cl.Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 


Rn a STI ah 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 
Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Jakes, Robert, Jr., Sgt.......-- Nashville, Tenn. Reed, Duncan, Sd’lr............ Memphis, Tenn. 
Jernigan, Chas. N., Cook....Manchester, Tenn. Reilly, Dan, Reg. Sgt. Maj.....Franklin, Tenn. 
Johnson, Custer M., Pvt.......-.------ Unknown Reynolds, John R. Sgt......... in, Tenn. 
Johnson, Robt. T., Jr., ist Set......... ilies) Cari We Gal 5 asic a/ntenials Knoxville, Tenn. 

Ob aS eee a ae ae Chattanooga, Tenn. Rice, James H., Cpl.....-...Centreville, Tenn. 
Jones, Bascom F., Bd. Cpl....Nashville, Tenn. Richardson, Marquis D., Cpl...Memphis, Tenn. 
Jones, Fred G., Pvt..........-- Nashville, Tenn. Ritner Dawid EH Pyt.c2c.cc..ccsnnce Unknown 
ete WERE (Be Sl aia ao wl nen Kame Unknown Roach, Herman F., Bgir....... Columbia, Tenn. 
Kelley, James T., Mess Sgt...-Nashville, Tenn. Roache, John E., Mech........ Nashville, Tenn. 
mabe, Marl C., Set.....-.-<-- Knoxville, Tenn. Rogers, Lee, Cpl.......-... Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
Knight, Fred O., Pvt. 1Cl.....- Nashville, Tenn. Runyan, Lloyd S. Jr. Col. Sgt.Nashville, Tenn. 
Lasley, Fred N., Pvt. 1Cl...... Cloverdale, Ind. Rust, Robt. E, Pvt.....-...... Humboidt, Tenn. 
Leath, Whitelow R., Bd. Cpl..-..Clinton, Tenn. Rison, Jasper E., CpL..... Cottage Grove, Tenn. 
Leland, Mari C, Pwi......c.2se+---+5- Unknown Sanders, Earl, Mus. 1Cl....-.- Lewisburg, Tenn. 
Lewis, Henry J.. Pvt. .-Huntingdon, Pa. Sanderson, Solen J., Pvt...... Town Creek, Ala. 
Littell, Gla E, Bd. Cpl. . -Spirit Lake, Iowa Saye, Walter. Mus. 2Cl....... Albemarle, N. C. 
Lynch, Harry M., Hrs.....-- Kansas City, Mo. Shanks, Harry C., Pvt.-...... Cookeville, Tenn. 
Mackey, Harry, Pvt.......... Clarksville, Tenn. Shaw, John W., Set....-.-...---.--- Quincy, Fla. 
Maher, Thomas D., Sst.....-- Kingsport, Tenn. Skinner, Marvin L., Pvit........ Childress, Texas 
Martin, James E., Pvi..-.... Chattanooga, Tenn. Smith, Daniel O., Sgt........-.....-Atlanta, Ga. 
Masengill, James B., Cpl.......-- Afton, Tenn. Snyder, Raymond. Pyt....Roaring Springs, Pa. 
Mason, John W., Cpl.......--- Nashville, Tenn. Southall, George W., Bd. Set...Nashville, Tenn. 
Matlock, John J., Cpl..-.....- Nashville, Tenn. Steining, Aubrey H.. Pvt......Nashville, Tenn. 
McCreary, Harry, Pvt. 1Cl...Springfield, Tenn. Stephens, John H., Cook...... Nashville, Tenn. 
McCurdy, M. N., Pvt. 1Cl....N. Veselboro, Me. St. Germain, Wilfred C.. Mus. 3ClL....Unknown 
McGowan, Clarence B., Cpl....Franklin, Tenn. Story, Wm. D., Wrs....... Ashland City, Tenn. 


MeGinley, Elmer R., Pvt 1Cl........... 

Spe eaipdiia oil leg af a fel yimtinli ec mil a Maynardville, Tenn. 
Milam, Lennis, Mus. 3Cl............-- Unknown 
Miller, Charley, Pvt...-.......- Nashville, Tenn. 
Monday, Fred, Pvt........... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Moore, Thomas W., Pvi........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Nannie, Thos. J., Cpl.....-.-... Nashville, Tenn. 
Nelson, James C., Pvt 1Cl........ Athens, Ala. 
Nelson, Joseph C., Pvit...............- Unknown 


Newman, Wm. R., Bd. Set....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Nordberg, Clifford E., Pvit..South Haven, Conn. 


Panter, Atired ©.) Pvt.....00...+..-- Unknown 
DREGE) Te eee Brighton, Tenn. 
Parmelee, John H., Bn. Sgt. Maj...-..... 

=e 3c AC SR SRR Knoxville, Tenn. 
Patterson, Ewell R., Pvt. 1Cl...Nashville, Tenn. 
Patty, Burch C., Cpl....... Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Pearce, Franklin, Set. Bgir..... Greenville, Ga. 
Plumb, Charley A., Cpl.....--... Brazoria, Texas 
Polston, Richard R., Mus. 2Cl..Nashville, Tenn. 
Bore /Gien W Pyvt....-.--.-.-. Gahanna, Ohio 
Pritchett, Champ C., Cpl........--.---- Unknown 


Pullen, John B., Pvt. 1Cl..Cottage Grove, Tenn. 
Redford, Kenneth D., Mus. 3Cl.Franklin, Tenn. 


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Talley, Andrew P., Pvt. 1Cl....Columbia, S. C. 
Talley, Steve D., Mus. 3Cl....Lewisburg, Tenn. 


Tarbet, James N., ist Sgst....... Saltillo, Tenn. 
Teas, James J., Bd. Sst......-. Waverly, Tenn. 
Thornton, John J., Pvt....... Dandridge, Tenn. 
Throneberry, Jasper D., Pvt. 1Cl........ 

Saf pong or Badtecocaoce Manchester, Tenn. 
Trimble, James E., Pvi......... Waterloo, Iowa 


Tucker, Wm. H., Pyt.....Westmoreland, Tenn. 
Turner, Lem V., Pvt. 1ClL..Maynardsville, Tenn. 


Weiter, Claude O., Pvt......... Nashville, Tenn. 
Voss, Henry T., Pvt. 1CL......Columbia, Tenn. 
yaeter: Ales RP wt. Wise aka nee poke Tenn. 
Wheatley, Wm. B., Pvt. Tenn. 
Whitaker, Odie, Pvi...........) i Tenn. 
White, William. Pvt....-.. Ma: i Tenn. 
Whitlock, Herman, Cpl..... New Market, Tenn. 
Whitworth, Bob D., Cpl.......-.Nashville, Tenn. 
Wilee, Thomas E............. Clarksville, Tenn. 
Wilkes, Prentice B., Mus. 3Cl. Whiteville, Tenn. 
De cbesene yy EE whe ea ein ee Carmel, Ind. 


Winfree, Ernest C., Pvt. 1Cl..Birmingham, Ala. 
Winters, Mack O.. Mus. 2CL..Springfield, Tenn. 
Wynn, Wm. B., Bd. Cpl...-..... Sevierville, Tenn. 


Rosters 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY 


Roster of Supply Company 


OFFICERS 
Names and Rank Address 
Bailey, Robert A., Captain.....Franklin, Tenn. 
Bell, Robert H., Captain...... Springfield, Tenn. 


Chandler, Walter C., Captain...Memphis, Tenn. 
Cole, .Bridgton, Maine 


Carmen, William C., 
Gerhard, Francis J., 1st Lt 
Jackson, N. Baxter, ist Lt.... 


. Nashville, Tenn. 


Nelson, Charles, Ist Lt........ Nashville, Tenn. 
Wilson) OMe ER est) Tatts siebeteren: Kansas City, Mo. 
Bailey, Broadus, 2nd Lt....... Nashville, Tenn. 
Bowles, He, Wr. Dry. at eibrieie | scie sve eas ave Unknown 


Lovejoy, Philip C., 2nd Lt 


Neely, James H., 2nd Lt......... Sunset, Texas 
Neely, James C., 2nd Lt....... Bellevue, Tenn. 
Richards, James S., 2nd Lt........... Unknown 
ENLISTED PERSONNEL 
Abner, John T., Wagoner........... .. Unknown 
Adams, Chambers D., Cook...Indianapolis, Ind. 
Ager,, Adam) C., Pvt... -\.). Williamsport, Tenn. 
Amis; Wewis UR Cpe cecscienc« she Franklin, Tenn. 


Antrobus, Wm. E., Pvt....... ....-Corinth, Ky. 


Jackson L., Cpl....... i 


Awtrey, Nashville, Tenn. 
AVers) May, vtec eteiseinier= wt ...- Springfield, Ill. 
Banta, Richard W., Pvt...... Bridgeport, Conn. 
Boehms, Lewis N. K., Wagoner...... Unknown 
Bonds; (Oharlie. Pytilikice sw wenen olen Antioch, Tenn. 
Bradley; -Aliperts By.) vtec ieketasegetere alse suey Unknown 
Bradley, Ernest H., Pvt..... ..Nashville, Tenn. 
Brown, William O., Wagoner...... ...Unknown 
Campbell, Charlie, Wagoner..........Unknown 


Carter® Kohn Givi, 5 aeviteieis ete tales Nashville, Tenn. 
Charlet, Elbert P., Cpl.......Clarksville, Tenn. 
Coffey, James H., Wagoner...........Unknown 
Cox ide) as ODI.» Pegram, Tenn. 


Cox,, James W., Wagoner.......Pegram, Tenn. 
Crouch, Lawrence O., Cpl....Clarksville, Tenn. 
Davis) Chias Wis Ss) SLi. were a .Clarksville, Tenn. 
Davis, Hugh C., Pvt...... ....Clarksville, Tenn. 
Daniels, Wm. M., Cpl......... Clarksville, Tenn. 
Dockery, Wrex, Wagoner.............Unknown 
Dorman, Mason L., Pvt. 1Cl....... Corinth, Ky. 
Duggan, Walter, Wagoner............. Unknown 
Durbys MlOLrest lan, IP Vite crates oleisin + alee’ olhea Unknown 
Durrett, Albert B., Wagoner......... . Unknown 
Elliott, James, Jr., Pvt........ Newcomb, Tenn. 
Everhart, James B., Me na ge .......Unknown 
Fairfield, Chas. D., Cook. .-Dandridge, Tenn. 
Farmer, Walter, ‘Wagoner. bee aiglold cyo.wars Y Unknown 
Ferguson, Robt. F., Pvt. 1Cl. “Clarksville, Tenn. 
Frech, Emmet M., Sad’lr.......... ...Unknown 
Gallop, Kirby, Wagoner............. . Unknown 
Galloway, Homer T., Pvt........ Maylene, Ark. 
Gibson, Henry A., Wagoner...........Unknown 
Gillespie, John O., Pvt......... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Gordon, Clarence, Pvt..... ..Murray City, Utah 
(Qhicrhyee) Minoowee bared ea 'a ror tig abarolra Clarksville, Tenn. 
Green, Sphears, Wagoner............ . Unknown 
Griffin, Ralph K., Wagoner..Clarksville, Tenn. 
Guess, Ellis C., Stable Sgt.......... Harle, Ark. 
Haggard, George, Pvt. 1Cl....Long Island, Ala. 
Hailey, Charles E., Wagoner..........Unknown 
Hatfield, Jno. F., Wagoner....... Oneida, Tenn. 
Hiathield) | Raw) vite ces sierete an ..Dunlap, Tenn. 
Hawkins, Emmett F., Wagoner....... ayes 

Segdoonedheaovos ob 6 ..Waxahachie, Texas 
Haygood, Noah F., Pvt. Nes Joseph, Tenn. 
Henry, Dale, Sad@’ir Saunas a5 ..Unknown 
Hipsher, Garrett, Wagoner......... ¥dol, Tenn. 
Hodges, Jas. S., 1st Segt....... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Holmes, Wm. W., Reg. Sup. Set.. 

Bo Pu Roda como ae aoa Nashville, Tenn. 
Hooper, Morzan G., Cpl....Ashland City, Tenn. 
Huffman, Frank B:, TEN te oieets ener Memphis, Tenn. 


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Names and Rank Address 


Hunter, Harry M., Pvt.. .Memphis, Tenn. 
Hurst, George R., Wagoner...........Unknown 


Jackson, Robt. M., Wagoner....Lebanon, Tenn. 
James, Robt. L., 1st Sgt......Clarksville, Tenn, 
James, Wm. R., Wagoner....... -Dayton, Tenn. 


Johnson, Ben L., Wagoner...Coal Creek, 
Johnson, Charlie A., Wagoner...... 


eee 


BSAA Crore.) Mbt o cc meek Point, Tenn. 
Justice, Martin, pesca ...-Cosby, Tenn. 
Keel, Smith M., Sup. Sg -Clarksville, Tenn. 
Keel, Wm. H., Cook......... | Clarksville, Tenn. 
Key, Dwight C., Wagoner...Morristown, Tenn. 
King, Charles E., Wagoner.....Roberta, Tenn. 
King, Lawson, Wagoner...........Cagle, Tenn. 
Borby:) eouwis) Er siyili.saer rates Clarksville, Tenn. 
Kleeman, Wm., Sup. Sgt......Clarksville, Tenn. 
Lay, Melton, Wagoner............ ....Unknown 
TAeSce| POSH whl. bavi canevekouenene neta ..-.Chicago, Ill. 
Logan, Joe H., Wagoner....... Knoxville, Tenn. 
Long, Loren E., Pvt. 1Cl...Johnson City, Tenn. 
Longhurst, Lawrence A., Sgt...Nashville, Tenn. 
Mabry, John E., Sgt........-. Clarksville, Tenn. 
Majors, James B., Wagoner.Liberty Hill, Tenn. 
Mallicoat, Joel, Wagoner...........Idol, Tenn. 
Malone, Franklin J., Wagoner.Capleville, Tenn. 
Marcrom, Harold D., Cook.....Hillsboro, Tenn. 
McBee, Geo., Wagoner....New Tazewell, Tenn. 


McCeldry, Geo. H., Wagoner..Sevierville, Tenn. 


McClannahan, Earl E.,.1ist Sgt..Memphis, Tenn. 
McCraw, Geo. B., Stable Sgt..Clarksville, Tenn. 
McDaniels, Claude, Pvt...... ...Memphis, Tenn. 
Meilntyre, RODE lie, nr Vtaereiceses ..Lebanon, Tenn. 
Meyer, Fred C., Pvt......... «ese. s@hicago, Tt 
Miles, Harry H., Reg. Sup. Sgt........... 

eratoueie sisal iavatalicye sealers ie Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
Montgomery, Ethel, Wagoner. ..Baxter, Tenn. 
Moody, Davis, Wagoner......Clarksville, Tenn. 
Morrison, Lee R., Sgt........Clarksville, Tenn. 
Neal,-Wm. W., Wagoner........... ... Unknown 


Neblett, Jones D., Mess Sgt...Clarksville, Tenn. 
Nordberg, Clifford C., Pvt............Unknown 
Ozment, Homer E., Mech......Nashville, Tenn. 
Pendegrass, Burl A., Wagoner.Nashville, Tenn. 
Pennington, Roy T., Pvt.......Columbus, Miss. 
Phillips, Onva K., Sta. Agt......Memphis, Tenn. 
Pollard, Homer R., Wagoner...Nashville, Tenn. 
Pritchett, Champ C., Pvt........St. Louis, Mo. 
Quarles, James C., Wagoner.....Talbott, Tenn. 
Reynolds, Robt. L., Pvt. 1Cl.......Guthrie, Ky. 
Rice, James H., Mech....... oeeeeeess. UNKNOWN 
Roberson, James V., Cook..... “Mt. Airy, Tenn. 
Roberts, Benj. J., Mech........Franklin, Tenn. 
Sartain, John R., Wagoner..White Pine, Tenn. 
Shipley, Jack, Pvt.......... »....Campbell, Mo. 
Shipley, John W., Wagoner...Bluff City, Tenn. 


Shipley, Wm. J., Wagoner.......Campbell, Mo. 
Shockley, Theopolis, Wagoner.......Idol, Tenn. 
Smith, Claude C., Wagoner.....Corryton, Tenn. 
Smith, Dave C., Pvt. 1Cl.....Clarksville, Tenn. 
Smith, George R., Pvt................ Unknown 
Smith, Guy, Pvt...... .......-Clarksville, Tenn. 
Smith, Joseph, H’r’s........ ...-.-Noeton, Tenn. 
Smith, Oscar W., Wagoner.....Booneville, Mo. 
Smith, Russell H., Pvt........ +++.+++, Unknown 


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Speer, Lawrence M., Wagoner....Sardis, 
Stine, Willie, Wagoner..... .... Bristol, 
Suddarth, James K., Wagoner. .Lebanon, 


Tarwater, George, Wagoner...Sevierville, Tenn. 
Taylor like; Pvt Ge i nice ...Watertown, Tenn. 
Taylor, Sidney O., Wagoner......Willow, Miss. 
Thomas, Louis O., Pvt. 1Cl...Clarksville, Tenn. 
Thornton, G. C., Wagoner....Dandridge, Tenn. 
Trice, Thomas H., H’r’s........Ringold, Tenn. 
Vanni, Philip, Pvt..............Memphis, Tenn. 
Waldauer, Abe D., Pvt. 1Cl....Memphis, Tenn. 
Wall, Joseph A., Mech.........Memphis, Tenn. 
Watson, Arthur E., H’r’s.........Adams, Tenn. 


HISTORY OF 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY Rosters 


Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Woods, Frank E., Wagoner..Alexandria, Tenn. Williams, Jos. C., Wagoner....Rutledge, Tenn. 
Wortham, Jas. R. C:, Cook....Memphis, Tenn. Williams, Leon B., Wagoner.Fayetteville, Tenn. 
Williams, Humes P., Wagoner........... Wilee, Thos. E., Wagoner....Clarksville, Tenn. 

Siatetaal hetelakalsva tat staitainvelints sires Clarksville, Tenn. Wright, Carson C., Pvt. 1Cl....Lebanon, Tenn. 


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Roster of Ordnance Detachment 


ENLISTED PERSONNEL Names and Rank Address 

Names and Rank Address Lightfoot, Robt. D., Cpl....... Memphis, Tenn. 
$ y Longhurst, Lawrence A., Sgt..Nashville, Tenn. 

Bieske, Walter J., Pvt. 1Cl........ Chicago, Ill. J 
Galdtellmciosepb i Ertl ice ac). Blairsville, Pa. HANSEL AIG, GEV CMS aCe hg bon EE NG 
Cumming, Orris A., Ord. Sgt...Memphis, Tenn. Majors, Ralph L., Pvt. 1Cl....Knoxville, Tenn. 
Diamond, John M., Pvt........ Nashville, Tenn. McHugh, Thos. L., Cpl..... Bowling Green, Ky. 
Follis; Tames: (Si) Cple i.e sie c+ 0/e Memphis, Tenn. Pritchett, Champ C., Pvt........ St. Louis, Mo. 
Gardner, Wm. H., Segt......... Nashville, Tenn. Smith, George R., Pvt. 1Cl....Farmville, N. C. 
ELTA MEROW PN Tee sinile oletere are Knoxville, Tenn. Spalding, Eugene, Pvt. 1Cl........ Paris, Tenn. 
Hayes, Claude W., Cpl...... Chattanooga, Tenn. Wilkes, John N., Pvt. 1Cl....Whiteville, Tenn. 
Lieske, Joseph H., Pvt............. Chicago, Ill. Williams, Walter V., Cpl...... Nashville, Tenn. 


Roster of Sanitary Detachment 


OFFICERS Names and Rank Address 

Doran, Jas. J., Pvt. 1Cl..Salisburg Mills, N. Y. 
Names a ais ee Gower, Joseph F., Pvt. 1Cl....... Adams, Tenn. 
Smith, Larkin, Major......... ESTEE, LN Scbelc Haddox, Joe C., Pvt. 1Cl...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Haggard, Douglas, Captain....Nashville, Tenn. Hill, William S., Pvt. 1Cl...... Nashville, Tenn. 
Haney, Arthur C., Captain........ Atkins, Ark. iubys Philip) Bey Le vity Ovaries Knoxville, Tenn. 
EAOOMS NNO] Lats atareinileys/ai)e.otehsdsielerale sare Unknown Kelley, Pruett A., Pvt. 1Cl..... Gallatin, Tenn. 

Nolen, Beverly T., ist Lt....... Franklin, Tenn. Merwin, Hubert J., Jr., Pvt. 1Cl......... 
Scott, Walter W., Ist Lt.............. Unknown — tte tect e eee teeter evens Knoxville, Tenn. 
Simmons, John F., 1st Lt....Greenwood, 8S, C. Miller, Emery L., Pvt. 1Cl.....Nashville, Tenn. 
Tucker, Harlin G., 1st Lt...... Nashville, Tenn. Moore, Charles D., Pvt. 1Cl.....Gallatin, Tenn. 
Williamson, Geo. C., 1st Lt....Nashville, Tenn. Sheetz, Eugene T., Pvt. 1Cl..,Nashville, Tenn. 
Wilson, Russell B., 1st Lt......... Gates, Tenn. Severe William B., Pvt. 1Cl..Nashville, Tenn. 
etterau, Lin C., Pvt. 1Cl....Nashville, Tenn. 
ENLISTED PERSONNEL Williams, Horace G., Pvt. 1Cl..Nashville, Tenn. 
Jeffries, Leo W., Sgt. 1Cl......... Helena, Ark. Wright, Talmage M., Pvt. 1Cl.Mt. Juliet, Tenn. 
Mitchell, Edward S., Sgt. 1Cl..Nashville, Tenn. Griffey, Edward W., Pvt....... Memphis, Tenn. 
Tibbs, James A., Sgt. 1Cl.Oklahoma City, Okla. Harris, ‘William (Bil Pvt eee = Dothan, Ala. 
Hayes, William S., Sgt Columbia, Tenn. Hawkins, Walter L., Pvt....... Louverne, Ala. 
DONES) OVW AIST VE SEE eels « «.<)0 ealelnin'e Paris, Tenn. Hildreth; Jamies, Pvt... 5 <<. Charlotte, N. C. 
Oehmig, Joe C., Sgt........... Nashville, Tenn. sarrett, Cicero; PVtie es sece ccc Burlington, N. C. 
Oehmig, Kenneth E., Sgt...... Nashville, Tenn. Lane, Elsbery E., Pvt.......... Edinton, N. C. 
Argo, John W., Pvt. 1Cl....... Nashville, Tenn, Mitchell, Chas. E., Pvt........ Asheville, N. C. 
Broyles, Samuel H., Pvt. 1Cl.Greeneville, Tenn. Mitchell, James A., Pvt....... Asheville, N. C. 
Burroughs, Littleton O., Pvt. 1Cl........ NLOOTe;) WV LL arri VAL PN Gerattare ste etiulal at alatiatel a Unknown 
Av ateyal shettehalie tebe ioretayertelie eiislgtetellens Nashville, Tenn. Winslow, Herbert S., Pvt...... Norwood, Mass. 


Roster of Dental Detachment 


Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Daugherty, Lew W., ist Lt...... Camden, Tenn. Freeman, Ernest L., Pvt....Gilmore City, Iowa 
Nance, Alexander W., ist Lt......Atlanta, Ga. Stewart, Henry W., Pvt.......... Paralta, Iowa 
Moore, Charles D., Pvt. 1Cl..... Gallatin, Tenn. 


Roster of Veterinary Detachment 


Names and Rank Address Names and Rank Address 
Kord, Clemens E., 1st Lt...... Nashville, Tenn. Gunn, Nicholas R., Farrier....Nashville, Tenn. 
Corson, Charles, 2nd Lt......... Cudahey, Wis. Jones, Howard B., Farrier ....Sante Fe, Tenn. 
Alderson, Thomas J., Pvt. 1Cl..Columbia, Tenn. Kinnard, Thomas J., Farrier.,.Columbia, Tenn. 
Boyd, Claude §S., Farrier.......Nashville, Tenn. Shacklett, Willie L., Pvt...... Nashville, Tenn. 


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